CVE-2026-72456

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 < 393809a05cfb60309ad63ee09138db8296d6b97eaffected
LinuxLinux8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867 < 7306c41672487a6c28430714be063bc6942c28f2affected
LinuxLinux7.0affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.0unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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