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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-72462

apparmor: fix race in unix socket mediation when peer_path is used

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix race in unix socket mediation when peer_path is used The holding a reference to the peer_sk is not enough to ensure access to the peer sk path. Accessing the path outside of the state lock allows for a race with unix_release_sock(). Fix this by taking the state lock and getting a reference to the path under lock. Ideally for connected sockets we would cache this information so we don't have to take the lock here. But for now just fix the race.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • bc6e5f6933b8e7b74858ac830d5b9b4ca10a099a to < d8ea44f6090c087fe255d9512fb808574b4d88e8affected
  • bc6e5f6933b8e7b74858ac830d5b9b4ca10a099a to < d680472db98823d90fc91362910901e468269318affected
  • bc6e5f6933b8e7b74858ac830d5b9b4ca10a099a to < b1aea2c1960771a276d7e68c7424168eccd0c3daaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.17affected
  • 0 to < 6.17unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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