CVE-2026-23410

apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference

High · published April 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference

There is a race condition that leads to a use-after-free situation:

because the rawdata inodes are not refcounted, an attacker can start

open()ing one of the rawdata files, and at the same time remove the

last reference to this rawdata (by removing the corresponding profile,

for example), which frees its struct aa_loaddata; as a result, when

seq_rawdata_open() is reached, i_private is a dangling pointer and

freed memory is accessed.

The rawdata inodes weren't refcounted to avoid a circular refcount and

were supposed to be held by the profile rawdata reference. However

during profile removal there is a window where the vfs and profile

destruction race, resulting in the use after free.

Fix this by moving to a double refcount scheme. Where the profile

refcount on rawdata is used to break the circular dependency. Allowing

for freeing of the rawdata once all inode references to the rawdata

are put.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00141 · 3.1th percentile
Published
2026-04-01T08:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 APR 08:36Z
    apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference
    cvelistv5