CVE-2026-47326: Memory leak in Ubuntu Linux AppArmor large notification response allocation

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-05-28 · updated 2026-10-26
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain SAUCE patches with a memory leak in the handling of big responses to AppArmor notifications. The bug can be triggered by an unprivileged local user. The memory leak could lead to resource exhaustion.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 24.04, 25.10, 26.04

References

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble/commit/?id=8d858ecb7e2e216ca2987302a04c266f2355fefe

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