CVE-2022-50860

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.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250cf8d37bb5201a117177afd24dc73a1c81657
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12695b4b76d437b9c0182a6f7dfb2248013a9daf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f509fa740b17307f0cba412485072f632d5af36
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a32aa87a25d800b2c6f47bc2749a7bfd9a486f3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e6fa49dbab6d84c676666f3fe7d360497fd65b

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2025-12-30 13:16

Updated : 2026-08-04 10:18

NVD link : CVE-2022-50860

Mitre link : CVE-2022-50860

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-50860

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Products Affected

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CWE

No CWE.

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