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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:59
VLAI
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
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: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657 (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < 12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf (git)
Affected: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317 , < e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b (git)
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Linux 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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