Kernel warning via field-spanning challenge copy
Published Sep 24, 2026 · Updated Sep 24, 2026
A field-spanning write in Linux 6.13 allows local users to trigger a kernel FORTIFY warning during RSI attestation token initialization. rsi_attestation_token_init copies a 32-to-64-byte challenge into ®s.a1, so FORTIFY treats the 8-byte a1 field as the whole destination even though the ABI carries the data across a1 through a8. The path is limited to arm64 Realm guests using the arm_cca_guest RSI attestation interface; the published record reports a warning and does not claim memory corruption, privilege gain, or data exposure.
Summary
What happened
A field-spanning write in Linux 6.13 allows local users to trigger a kernel FORTIFY warning during RSI attestation token initialization. rsi_attestation_token_init copies a 32-to-64-byte challenge into ®s.a1, so FORTIFY treats the 8-byte a1 field as the whole destination even though the ABI carries the data across a1 through a8. The path is limited to arm64 Realm guests using the arm_cca_guest RSI attestation interface; the published record reports a warning and does not claim memory corruption, privilege gain, or data exposure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-93266
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 24, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 24, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 24, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.13
- Affected versionversion=b880a80011f56880f32bde47fc6af313359f926b <221049874b6a78c7d87bc826581b0695cd338e2b
- Affected versionversion=b880a80011f56880f32bde47fc6af313359f926b <d29a8ee271da17b5e32d7a76a9c78d43f66447ca
- Affected versionversion=b880a80011f56880f32bde47fc6af313359f926b <e505092cb200d430d5b8d8d3e926d45f29474ba3
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