Bug 2516483 (CVE-2026-72460) - CVE-2026-72460 kernel: apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test
Summary: CVE-2026-72460 kernel: apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72460
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 14:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:14:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: check label build before no_new_privs test

aa_change_profile() builds a replacement label with
fn_label_build_in_scope() before the no_new_privs subset check. The build
helper can fail and return NULL or an ERR_PTR, but the result was passed
to aa_label_is_unconfined_subset() before the existing IS_ERR_OR_NULL()
check.

Reuse the existing target-label build failure handling immediately after
the build. This preserves the current audit handling while preventing the
subset helper from dereferencing an invalid label.


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