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GHSA-G5PH-9WMF-49W8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-30 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-30 15:30

Details

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

apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(), use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it.

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CVE-2022-50860 (GCVE-0-2022-50860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2025-12-30 12:15

Title

apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns() After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(), use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c…

Impacted products

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Product

Version

Linux

Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-G5PH-9WMF-49W8

CVE-2022-50860 (GCVE-0-2022-50860)

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