High 7.8Published Dec 30, 2025

CVE-2022-50860apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 1:23 PM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Aug 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 before 9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3; from a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 before 5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36; from a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 before 0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657; from a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 before 12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf; from a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 before e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b

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