CVE-2026-72456 (GCVE-0-2026-72456)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:15
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Title
apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure
Summary
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.
Severity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 , < 393809a05cfb60309ad63ee09138db8296d6b97e (git)
Affected: 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 , < 7306c41672487a6c28430714be063bc6942c28f2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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