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CVE-2022-50860 High

apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

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.

Exploit probability 0.2%
Published December 30, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Linux Kernel
Unknown Unknown

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-50860

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

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