CVE-2026-23403 (GCVE-0-2026-23403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-01 08:36 – Updated: 2026-04-18 08:58
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Title
apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 9d678eb0fe55c9195d9a253e8c5b82a87b930737 (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 6b79abcb3c985e153fcf9d395e1d4336081aabc2 (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < bcf82c0c5a8b383fd2d5d8f3fd880cdcab2ac557 (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 663ce34786e759ebcbeb3060685c20bcc886d51a (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 786e2c2a87d9c505f33321d1fd23a176aa8ddeb1 (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 4f0889f2df1ab99224a5e1ac4e20437eea5fe38e (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < 42fd831abfc15d0643c14688f0522556b347e7e6 (git)
Affected: dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f , < e38c55d9f834e5b848bfed0f5c586aaf45acb825 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.169 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.18 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.8 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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