Bug 2482132 (CVE-2026-45884) - CVE-2026-45884 kernel: apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer
Summary: CVE-2026-45884 kernel: apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-45884
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:12:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer

When aa_get_buffer() pulls from the per-cpu list it unconditionally
decrements cache->hold. If hold reaches 0 while count is still non-zero,
the unsigned decrement wraps to UINT_MAX. This keeps hold non-zero for a
very long time, so aa_put_buffer() never returns buffers to the global
list, which can starve other CPUs and force repeated kmalloc(aa_g_path_max)
allocations.

Guard the decrement so hold never underflows.


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