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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-53287

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 6/26/2026 4:17:21 PM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

audit: fix incorrect inheritable capability in CAPSET records

__audit_log_capset() records the effective capability set into the
inheritable field due to a copy-paste error. Every CAPSET audit
record therefore reports cap_pi (process inheritable) with the value
of cap_effective instead of cap_inheritable.

This silently corrupts audit data used for compliance and forensic
analysis: an attacker who modifies inheritable capabilities to
prepare for a privilege-escalating exec would have the change masked
in the audit trail.

The bug has been present since the original introduction of CAPSET
audit records in 2008.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a065c51a225854768b772a0b733a44d77162582
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/151ee470edc3d7ed29fe72df678f8357d2ad8ced
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75bd76c9eb2de9afeca03dc5152ebca5fb8fc816
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95de7bb4bf535a9288549d401ebde83cdcbf2792
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d782e4d200cd9036ef353eeb29525bfbfd13a14e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e35f3550c5b4fab33103c18654c293cee9850b0a
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a640475e43f406fdfd56d370b1f34b0cbbc18d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/febb4bf373ac565d3fb8d1f429827bdd983be496
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