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CVE-2026-23403

apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header The function sets `*ns = NULL` on every call, leaking the namespace string allocated in previous iterations when multiple profiles are unpacked. This also breaks namespace consistency checking since *ns is always NULL when the comparison is made. Remove the incorrect assignment. The caller (aa_unpack) initializes *ns to NULL once before the loop, which is sufficient.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 9d678eb0fe55c9195d9a253e8c5b82a87b930737; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 6b79abcb3c985e153fcf9d395e1d4336081aabc2; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before bcf82c0c5a8b383fd2d5d8f3fd880cdcab2ac557; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 663ce34786e759ebcbeb3060685c20bcc886d51a; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 786e2c2a87d9c505f33321d1fd23a176aa8ddeb1; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 4f0889f2df1ab99224a5e1ac4e20437eea5fe38e; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before 42fd831abfc15d0643c14688f0522556b347e7e6; affected dd51c84857630e77c139afe4d9bba65fc051dc3f before e38c55d9f834e5b848bfed0f5c586aaf45acb825
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.12; unaffected 0 before 3.12; unaffected 5.10.253 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.169 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.130 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.77 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.18 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.8 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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