CVE-2026-23404 (GCVE-0-2026-23404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-01 08:36 – Updated: 2026-04-01 08:36
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apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach The profile removal code uses recursion when removing nested profiles, which can lead to kernel stack exhaustion and system crashes. Reproducer: $ pf='a'; for ((i=0; i<1024; i++)); do echo -e "profile $pf { \n }" | apparmor_parser -K -a; pf="$pf//x"; done $ echo -n a > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove Replace the recursive __aa_profile_list_release() approach with an iterative approach in __remove_profile(). The function repeatedly finds and removes leaf profiles until the entire subtree is removed, maintaining the same removal semantic without recursion.
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Linux Linux Affected: c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 , < 33959a491e9fd557abfa5fce5ae4637d400915d3 (git)
Affected: c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 , < 999bd704b0b641527a5ed46f0d969deff8cfa68b (git)
Affected: c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 , < 7eade846e013cbe8d2dc4a484463aa19e6515c7f (git)
Affected: c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 , < a6a941a1294ac5abe22053dc501d25aed96e48fe (git)
Affected: c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 , < ab09264660f9de5d05d1ef4e225aa447c63a8747 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.36
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.36 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.18 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.8 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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