CVE-2026-23403

Updated on 01 Apr 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header

The function sets *ns = NULL on every call, leaking the namespace string allocated in previous iterations when multiple profiles are unpacked. This also breaks namespace consistency checking since *ns is always NULL when the comparison is made.

Remove the incorrect assignment. The caller (aa_unpack) initializes *ns to NULL once before the loop, which is sufficient.

Details

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 13 Ready For Release
Ubuntu 16.04 AWS HWE ESM Planned
Ubuntu 16.04 GCP ESM Planned
Ubuntu 16.04 HWE ESM Planned
Ubuntu 18.04 Planned
Ubuntu 18.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 18.04 Azure Planned
Ubuntu 18.04 GCP Planned