Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-72456

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.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 8d34e16f7f2b51f880957f2caadaae731ee28867, 7.0, 0

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