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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72460

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:19 AM

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Added Description

                  
                
              
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.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31cb109db5e6322ed22304fd5c0dedbaa438d6d3
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a29f06db44b4c94597ded58f639eed3e21781ac3
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a58cafd38b46fb1a2220e2fbbcfe291ea75fa147
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7c45c05a396a017c49ac7949de240a0dfc0ac4e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfc224866530a6842b6c2d2d30ef6a9b0e64bb9c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d82160132345688a09cbaa648cfdd16bb32e8ea2
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d84bb195d208adbf77f012ca2a96e11163f6def1
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec926b2a351eeeb31e6c9aee02e0c32f94b5588f
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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