CVE-2026-23404
Description
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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.
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33959a491e9fd557abfa5fce5ae4637d400915d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eade846e013cbe8d2dc4a484463aa19e6515c7f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999bd704b0b641527a5ed46f0d969deff8cfa68b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6a941a1294ac5abe22053dc501d25aed96e48fe
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab09264660f9de5d05d1ef4e225aa447c63a8747