CVE-2026-72457

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fail policy unpack on accept2 allocation failure unpack_pdb() may need to allocate a missing ACCEPT2 table for older policy data. If that allocation failed, it set an error message but jumped to the success path, returning a policydb with the required table missing. Return -ENOMEM through the normal failure path when the ACCEPT2 allocation fails. Remove the now-unused out label.

CVSS

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References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/106e909e12baf059538f0b0f1a59f87781d25b3c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22dc9433d458cff1270f120685114a9753e0ad1b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45cf568241048e560a81aa2053f06a62069f5640

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-15 06:22

Updated : 2026-08-17 06:19

NVD link : CVE-2026-72457

Mitre link : CVE-2026-72457

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-72457

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Products Affected

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CWE

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