CVE-2026-45884 PUBLISHED

apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer

When aa_get_buffer() pulls from the per-cpu list it unconditionally decrements cache->hold. If hold reaches 0 while count is still non-zero, the unsigned decrement wraps to UINT_MAX. This keeps hold non-zero for a very long time, so aa_put_buffer() never returns buffers to the global list, which can starve other CPUs and force repeated kmalloc(aa_g_path_max) allocations.

Guard the decrement so hold never underflows.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ea9bae12d02819556db63348db8bd8441eb316f2 to 202824a1f89a9786c20a3d646a7c88d223abb1b2 (excl.)
  • affected from ea9bae12d02819556db63348db8bd8441eb316f2 to 80c334acc6d0bee8605a358a33e69b4aea1ffb92 (excl.)
  • affected from ea9bae12d02819556db63348db8bd8441eb316f2 to 4bcddd0f6b2e52b4c7b520e4d36a115caf5b7169 (excl.)
  • affected from ea9bae12d02819556db63348db8bd8441eb316f2 to 640cf2f09575c9dc344b3f7be2498d31e3923ead (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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