Bug 2453799 (CVE-2026-23404) - CVE-2026-23404 kernel: apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach
Summary: CVE-2026-23404 kernel: apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with itera...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-23404
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-01 10:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-01 10:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-01 10:02:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach

The profile removal code uses recursion when removing nested profiles,
which can lead to kernel stack exhaustion and system crashes.

Reproducer:
  $ pf='a'; for ((i=0; i<1024; i++)); do
      echo -e "profile $pf { \n }" | apparmor_parser -K -a;
      pf="$pf//x";
  done
  $ echo -n a > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove

Replace the recursive __aa_profile_list_release() approach with an
iterative approach in __remove_profile(). The function repeatedly
finds and removes leaf profiles until the entire subtree is removed,
maintaining the same removal semantic without recursion.


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