CVE-2022-50860 (GCVE-0-2022-50860)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-30 12:15
Modified
2025-12-30 12:15
Severity ?
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.
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Linux Linux Version: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317
Version: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317
Version: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317
Version: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317
Version: a1bd627b46d169268a0ee5960899fb5be960a317
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