# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23408"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-01T08:36:37.873Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:21:29.316Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23408"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23408.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23408"
title: "apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\napparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()\n\nif ns_name is NULL after\n1071         error = aa_unpack(udata, &lh, &ns_name);\n\nand if ent-\u003ens_name contains an ns_name in\n1089                 } else if (ent-\u003ens_name) {\n\nthen ns_name is assigned the ent-\u003ens_name\n1095                         ns_name = ent-\u003ens_name;\n\nhowever ent-\u003ens_name is freed at\n1262                 aa_load_ent_free(ent);\n\nand then again when freeing ns_name at\n1270         kfree(ns_name);\n\nFix this by NULLing out ent-\u003ens_name after it is transferred to ns_name\n\n\")"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6347a2116ecccb8fd9ee4ebc75ae41d1d7ef689"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c053ae381ce227577567d1ef10090ce7506d7a28"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35f4caec1352054b9a61cfdf2bf1898073637aa0"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55ef2af7490aaf72f8ffe11ec44c6bcb7eb2162a"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86feeccd6b93ed94bd6655f30de80f163f8d5a45"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7998ab3010d2317643f91828f1853d954ef31387"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18b5233e860c294a847ee07869d93c0b8673a54b"},{"version":"145a0ef21c8e944957f58e2c8ffcd8a10f46266a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5df0c44e8f5f619d3beb871207aded7c78414502"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.169","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.77","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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