CVE-2026-47326 (GCVE-0-2026-47326)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-28 18:26
Modified
2026-05-28 19:25
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Canonical Ubuntu Linux Version: 6.8.0
Version: 6.17.0
Version: 7.0.0
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