CVE-2026-23408 PUBLISHED

apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 01.04.2026 Updated: 01.04.2026

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

apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()

if ns_name is NULL after 1071 error = aa_unpack(udata, &lh, &ns_name);

and if ent->ns_name contains an ns_name in 1089 } else if (ent->ns_name) {

then ns_name is assigned the ent->ns_name 1095 ns_name = ent->ns_name;

however ent->ns_name is freed at 1262 aa_load_ent_free(ent);

and then again when freeing ns_name at 1270 kfree(ns_name);

Fix this by NULLing out ent->ns_name after it is transferred to ns_name

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Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a to 55ef2af7490aaf72f8ffe11ec44c6bcb7eb2162a (excl.)
  • affected from 145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a to 86feeccd6b93ed94bd6655f30de80f163f8d5a45 (excl.)
  • affected from 145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a to 7998ab3010d2317643f91828f1853d954ef31387 (excl.)
  • affected from 145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a to 18b5233e860c294a847ee07869d93c0b8673a54b (excl.)
  • affected from 145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a to 5df0c44e8f5f619d3beb871207aded7c78414502 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.5 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.5 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.18 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.8 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc4 to * (incl.)

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