CVE-2022-50077

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix reference count leak in aapivotroot The aapivotroot function has a reference counting bug in a specific path. When aareplacecurrentlabel returns on success, the function forgets to decrement the reference count of...

CVE-2022-50077 apparmor: fix reference count leak in aa_pivotroot()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix reference count leak in aapivotroot The aapivotroot function has a reference counting bug in a specific path. When aareplacecurrentlabel returns on success, the function forgets to decrement the reference count of...

CVE-2022-50077

The CVE-2022-50077 entry concerns the Linux kernel AppArmor path aa_pivotroot, where a reference-count bug leaks a previously incremented “target” when aa_replace_current_label() returns success. The fix is to decrement the refcount of target in that code path (build_pivotroot() increased it earl...