CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23403
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header
The function sets `*ns = NULL` on every call, leaking the namespace
string allocated in previous iterations when multiple profiles are
unpacked. This also breaks namespace consistency checking since *ns
is always NULL when the comparison is made.
Remove the incorrect assignment.
The caller (aa_unpack) initializes *ns to NULL once before the loop,
which is sufficient.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.12.1 < 5.10.253)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.203)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.169)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.8)
• linux linux kernel 3.12
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42fd831abfc15d0643c14688f0522556b347e7e6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f0889f2df1ab99224a5e1ac4e20437eea5fe38e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/663ce34786e759ebcbeb3060685c20bcc886d51a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b79abcb3c985e153fcf9d395e1d4336081aabc2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/786e2c2a87d9c505f33321d1fd23a176aa8ddeb1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d678eb0fe55c9195d9a253e8c5b82a87b930737 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf82c0c5a8b383fd2d5d8f3fd880cdcab2ac557 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e38c55d9f834e5b848bfed0f5c586aaf45acb825 Patch