{
  "cveId": "CVE-2026-72455",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-72455",
  "summary": "CVE-2026-72455 is fixed in linux on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72455 (version 7.1.5-1), released August 15, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.",
  "title": "linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  apparmor: fix uninitialised pointer passed to au...",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  apparmor: fix uninitialised pointer passed to audit_log_untrustedstring()  Commit 4a134723f9f1 (\u0022apparmor: move check for aa_null file to cover all cases\u0022) intrdouced a small bug, where path_name() may pass a potentially uninitialized *name to aa_audit_file() if the path-\u003Edentry had been replaced with aa_null.dentry earlier on. This can lead to page fault like one observed on 7.0.2 openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel:  [51692.242756] [  T24690] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000f00000003 [51692.242762] [  T24690] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [51692.242763] [  T24690] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [51692.242765] [  T24690] PGD 0 P4D 0 [51692.242768] [  T24690] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [51692.242772] [  T24690] CPU: 3 UID: 1020 PID: 24690 Comm: snap-confine Tainted: G           O        7.0.2-1-default #1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed  ab90b4c9940707f9cafa19bdad80b2cec52dbe51 [51692.242775] [  T24690] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE [51692.242777] [  T24690] Hardware name: Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series)/FRANMDCP05, BIOS 03.18 01/08/2026 [51692.242778] [  T24690] RIP: 0010:strlen\u002B0x4/0x30 [51692.242783] [  T24690] Code: f7 75 ec 31 c0 e9 17 9f 00 ff 48 89 f8 e9 0f 9f 00 ff 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa \u003C80\u003E 3f 00 74 18 48 89 f8 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 [51692.242785] [  T24690] RSP: 0018:ffffd015eb1e3608 EFLAGS: 00010282 [51692.242787] [  T24690] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff89796198a360 RCX: 0000000000000000 [51692.242788] [  T24690] RDX: 00000000000000d1 RSI: 0000000f00000003 RDI: 0000000f00000003 [51692.242790] [  T24690] RBP: ffffffffb7ede090 R08: 00000000000005f5 R09: 0000000000000000 [51692.242791] [  T24690] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffd015eb1e3700 [51692.242792] [  T24690] R13: ffff8977a22bc380 R14: ffffffffb7ec5190 R15: ffff8977a0c8aa80 [51692.242794] [  T24690] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff897f640d8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [51692.242796] [  T24690] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [51692.242797] [  T24690] CR2: 0000000f00000003 CR3: 00000006ad15f000 CR4: 0000000000f50ef0 [51692.242799] [  T24690] PKRU: 55555554 [51692.242800] [  T24690] Call Trace: [51692.242802] [  T24690]  \u003CTASK\u003E [51692.242804] [  T24690]  audit_log_untrustedstring\u002B0x1d/0x40 [51692.242811] [  T24690]  common_lsm_audit\u002B0x71/0x1d0 [51692.242816] [  T24690]  aa_audit\u002B0x5a/0x170 [51692.242819] [  T24690]  aa_audit_file\u002B0x18a/0x1b0 [51692.242825] [  T24690]  path_name\u002B0xd2/0x100 [51692.242829] [  T24690]  profile_path_perm.part.0\u002B0x58/0xb0 [51692.242832] [  T24690]  aa_path_perm\u002B0xef/0x150 [51692.242837] [  T24690]  apparmor_file_open\u002B0x153/0x2e0 [51692.242840] [  T24690]  security_file_open\u002B0x46/0xd0 [51692.242844] [  T24690]  do_dentry_open\u002B0xe9/0x4d0 [51692.242848] [  T24690]  vfs_open\u002B0x30/0x100  While here, initialise variables which are passed down to path_name().",
  "published": "2026-08-15T06:22:19Z",
  "severity": "high",
  "cvss": 7.1,
  "cvssVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H",
  "epss": 0.00164,
  "epssPercentile": 0.0565,
  "priority": "High",
  "priorityTier": 3,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "fixes": [
    {
      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "linux",
      "release": "Debian 14",
      "fixedVersion": "7.1.5-1",
      "fix": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72455",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-72455",
      "released": "2026-08-15T22:38:55Z"
    }
  ],
  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-09T13:31:49Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
    "terms": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar/use-the-data"
  }
}