CVE-2026-72458

apparmor: fix NULL pointer dereference in unpack_pdb

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: fix NULL pointer dereference in unpack_pdb

pdb->dfa could be NULL if unpack_dfa fails, causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2e12c5f060176ede209673e4f63ea5d0e3c5814c to before fbfdb5a94a48797bea232791e24c38f3aa3063c8Affected
  • 2e12c5f060176ede209673e4f63ea5d0e3c5814c to before 73d86ca950b80cd39ca948e2c518d135bf2308c8Affected
  • 2e12c5f060176ede209673e4f63ea5d0e3c5814c to before 7681ca43d2b1c776e62fe77e3167835fb1ab8319Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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