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GHSA-H42Q-RF58-CW35

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-17 06:33

Details

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

apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test

aa_change_profile() builds a replacement label with fn_label_build_in_scope() before the no_new_privs subset check. The build helper can fail and return NULL or an ERR_PTR, but the result was passed to aa_label_is_unconfined_subset() before the existing IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check.

Reuse the existing target-label build failure handling immediately after the build. This preserves the current audit handling while preventing the subset helper from dereferencing an invalid label.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-72460 (GCVE-0-2026-72460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:44

Title

apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test aa_change_profile() builds a replacement label with fn_label_build_in_scope() before the no_new_privs subset check. The build helper can fail and return NULL or an ERR_PTR, but the result was passed to aa_label_is_unconfined_subset() before the existing IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check. Reuse the existing target-label build failure handling immediately after the build. This preserves the current audit handling while preventing the subset helper from dereferencing an invalid label.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29f06db44b4c9459…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfc224866530a6842…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31cb109db5e6322ed…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7c45c05a396a017c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d84bb195d208adbf7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d82160132345688a0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec926b2a351eeeb31…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a58cafd38b46fb1a2…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < a29f06db44b4c94597ded58f639eed3e21781ac3 (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < cfc224866530a6842b6c2d2d30ef6a9b0e64bb9c (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < 31cb109db5e6322ed22304fd5c0dedbaa438d6d3 (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < b7c45c05a396a017c49ac7949de240a0dfc0ac4e (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < d84bb195d208adbf77f012ca2a96e11163f6def1 (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < d82160132345688a09cbaa648cfdd16bb32e8ea2 (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < ec926b2a351eeeb31e6c9aee02e0c32f94b5588f (git) Affected: e00b02bb6ac2a1893227ce8014b649028d6425d2 , < a58cafd38b46fb1a2220e2fbbcfe291ea75fa147 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.13 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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