Memory Leak Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.55.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELSOURCE-17148445
  • published4 Jun 2026
  • disclosed3 Jun 2026

Introduced: 3 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-23403  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150700.53.55.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header

The function sets *ns = NULL on every call, leaking the namespace string allocated in previous iterations when multiple profiles are unpacked. This also breaks namespace consistency checking since *ns is always NULL when the comparison is made.

Remove the incorrect assignment. The caller (aa_unpack) initializes *ns to NULL once before the loop, which is sufficient.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1