FKIE_CVE-2022-50860

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-30 13:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:24
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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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\napparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()\n\nAfter changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 (\"apparmor: share profile name on\nreplacement\"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab\nobject, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(),\nuse aa_policy_destroy() to fix it."
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  "id": "CVE-2022-50860",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:24:18.683",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-30T13:16:00.787",
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