apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23405
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces Currently the number of policy namespaces is not bounded relying on the user namespace limit. However policy namespaces aren't strictly tied to user namespaces and it is possible to create them and nest them arbitrarily deep which can be used to exhaust system resource. Hard cap policy namespaces to the same depth as user namespaces.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < 6b396cc2f0365e684fc1d3547d18ef79fcee225d ; affected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < 87d0cecc900e55d55fc4dbfb43ac93e269c7a5b3 ; affected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < b1226e37eb3754d389721c135db6107db94c7a72 ; affected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < 3f8699b3ee0c04b4b9bc27b82cd89a40e81e1d2e ; affected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < 853ce31ca72097d23991a06876a2ccb5cb64b603 ; affected c88d4c7b049e87998ac0a9f455aa545cc895ef92 < d42b2b6bb77ca40ee34ab74ad79305840b5f315d
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.36 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.36 ; unaffected 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.169 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD