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GHSA-9FJ6-7JCR-96F8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-15 06:32

Details

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

apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure

get_current_exe_path() takes both an exe_file reference and a path reference before resolving the path name. If aa_path_name() failed, it returned immediately and leaked both references.

Route the failure through the common cleanup path so fput() and path_put() always run after the references are acquired.

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CVE-2026-72456 (GCVE-0-2026-72456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:15

Title

apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure get_current_exe_path() takes both an exe_file reference and a path reference before resolving the path name. If aa_path_name() failed, it returned immediately and leaked both references. Route the failure through the common cleanup path so fput() and path_put() always run after the references are acquired.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/393809a05cfb60309…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7306c41672487a6c2…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 , < 393809a05cfb60309ad63ee09138db8296d6b97e (git) Affected: 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 , < 7306c41672487a6c28430714be063bc6942c28f2 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.0 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-9FJ6-7JCR-96F8

CVE-2026-72456 (GCVE-0-2026-72456)

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