apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, 6.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-50860
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g5ph-9wmf-49w8
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b
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Sources
- CVE-2022-50860 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-50860 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g5ph-9wmf-49w8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-50860 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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