CVE-2026-72459

high

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc2192899d502e3321e60cf1e91421e7309d089c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf310b044e85d4de670c94295c5d8e4c5bc5e7bc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5a9da5d36162d34db0f36abb15420e295176793

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b14fbacad77d64594228983ec20d61a224f3f491

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae02e603c0b39b29f3ce6fe3efe01b286af1a2a4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb69e109610bba500e1ecb870f7988a4717208a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d91479174240f39e9edea250d95fa08c678a207

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654fe7505dc6889724d4094fa64f89991afabfc3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-15

Updated: 2026-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00184