CVE-2022-50860
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Memory Leak in Linux Kernel AppArmor alloc_ns() Fixed

Publication date: 2025-12-30

Last updated on: 2025-12-30

Assigner: kernel.org

Description
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.
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Published
2025-12-30
Last Modified
2025-12-30
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2026-06-16
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2025-12-30
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
NVD
CVE-2022-50860
EUVD
EUVD-2022-55838
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linux kernel *
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a memory leak in the Linux kernel's AppArmor security module. After a specific code change, the hname member of the aa_policy structure was incorrectly handled as a slab object and freed improperly, which caused a memory leak. The fix involves using the correct function, aa_policy_destroy(), to properly free this memory.

Impact Analysis

The memory leak could lead to increased memory usage over time, potentially degrading system performance or causing resource exhaustion on systems using AppArmor in the Linux kernel.

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