CVE-2026-72462

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72462
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72462.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-72462
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:57:06.705Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:56:26.016261410Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
apparmor: fix race in unix socket mediation when peer_path is used
Details

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 peersk is not enough to ensure access to the peer sk path. Accessing the path outside of the state lock allows for a race with unixrelease_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.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72462.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
bc6e5f6933b8e7b74858ac830d5b9b4ca10a099a
Fixed
d8ea44f6090c087fe255d9512fb808574b4d88e8
Fixed
d680472db98823d90fc91362910901e468269318
Fixed
b1aea2c1960771a276d7e68c7424168eccd0c3da

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72462.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.17.0
Fixed
6.18.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72462.json"