# CVE-2022-50860: apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc\_ns()

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-30 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.13

## Description

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.

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## Related

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## References

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

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