CVE-2022-50860

apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

30 Dec 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns() After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(), use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b