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CVE-2026-23404

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CVE-2026-23404

Published: Apr 1, 2026

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 - < ea854f032190cc9f26dc4a0e727090c89e55e342
affected
c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 - < 4fdc847b107321dec22bf8ecd6019b7af76d7886
affected
c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 - < b36a04284d0208be94e5e401409caa00e2bf1be1
affected
c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 - < 33959a491e9fd557abfa5fce5ae4637d400915d3
affected
c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 - < 999bd704b0b641527a5ed46f0d969deff8cfa68b

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.36
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.36
unaffected
5.10.253 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.203 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.169 - <= 6.1.*

+5 more versions

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