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Linux CVE-2026-72456

| EUVDEUVD-2026-59355
2026-08-15 Linux GHSA-9fj6-7jcr-96f8

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Patch available
Aug 15, 2026 - 07:20 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 15, 2026 - 05:57 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Analysis

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.

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