CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72459

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's AppArmor module, a resource leak exists in aa_label_alloc(). The function allocates a secid before allocating or taking the label proxy. If the later proxy step fails, the error path only frees the label memory, leaking resources initialized by aa_label_init().

Risk Assessment

Resource leak can lead to memory exhaustion and system instability.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update containing the fix that uses aa_label_free() on the failure path to release secid and other label resources.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: aa_label_alloc use aa_label_free on alloc failure aa_label_alloc() allocates a secid before allocating or taking the label proxy. If the later proxy step fails, the error path only freed the label memory, leaking any resources initialized by aa_label_init(). Use aa_label_free() on the failure path so partially initialized labels release their secid and other label resources before the backing memory is freed.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS