Riskcovery

CVE-2026-72456

apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 to before 393809a05cfb60309ad63ee09138db8296d6b97eAffected
  • 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 to before 7306c41672487a6c28430714be063bc6942c28f2Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.0Affected
  • before 7.0Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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