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CVE-2026-80619 (GCVE-0-2026-80619)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:48 – Updated: 2026-08-29 06:21
VLAI
Title
apparmor: fix potential UAF in aa_replace_profiles
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix potential UAF in aa_replace_profiles The function aa_replace_profiles was accessing udata->size after calling aa_put_loaddata(udata), causing a potential UAF. Fixed this by saving the size to a local variable before dropping the reference.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < 9d8e47cbce7536f19c96e37d0685a042010187ee (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < 9d37dc6376e336dc4b4f39a7ad0d069aa70e9495 (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < c0f3a3fda617beeec58708720304dd026a1a4dd7 (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < 5cba148eae6e8550c2889f5c0f94d72bed864321 (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < c44de0880b7ccc15c70a6352b5e107677d32b061 (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < 57b1bd4486d56254bb8af1a8f3d4445bbe505290 (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < dd5f1202f45a2dbe2c7dd10093f5c6bb2d8ac5bb (git)
Affected: 5ac8c355ae0013d82b3a07b49aebeadfce9b6e52 , < 7b42f95813dc9ceb6bda35afcf914630909a19f9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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