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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63827" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T12:02:22.083Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:51:35.761Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-63827" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63827.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63827" title: "apparmor: fix use-after-free in rawdata dedup loop" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\napparmor: fix use-after-free in rawdata dedup loop\n\naa_replace_profiles() walks ns-\u003erawdata_list to dedup the incoming\npolicy blob against entries already attached to existing profiles.\nPer the kernel-doc on struct aa_loaddata, list membership does not\nhold a reference: profiles hold pcount, and when the last pcount\ndrops, do_ploaddata_rmfs() is queued on a workqueue that takes\nns-\u003elock and removes the entry. Between dropping the last pcount\nand the workqueue running, an entry remains on the list with\npcount == 0.\n\naa_get_profile_loaddata() is an unconditional kref_get() on\npcount, so when the dedup loop hits such an entry, refcount\nhardening reports\n\n refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\n\ninside aa_replace_profiles(), and the poisoned counter then\ntrips \"saturated\" and \"underflow\" warnings on the subsequent\nuses of the same loaddata.\n\nBefore commit a0b7091c4de4 (\"apparmor: fix race on rawdata\ndereference\") the dedup path used a get_unless_zero-style helper\non a single counter, so the existing \"if (tmp)\" guard was\nmeaningful. The split-refcount refactor introduced\naa_get_profile_loaddata(), which has plain kref_get() semantics,\nand the guard quietly became a no-op.\n\nIntroduce aa_get_profile_loaddata_not0(), matching the existing\n_not0 convention used by aa_get_profile_not0(), and use it for\nthe rawdata_list dedup lookup so dying entries are skipped.\n\nReproduced on x86_64 with v7.1-rc5 in QEMU+KVM running Ubuntu\n24.04 + stress-ng 0.17.06:\n\n stress-ng --apparmor 1 --klog-check --timeout 60s\n\nWithout this patch the three refcount_t warnings fire within a\nfew seconds. With it the same 60 s run is clean. Coverage is a\nsmoke-test only; a longer soak with CONFIG_KASAN, CONFIG_KCSAN\nand CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING would be welcome from anyone with the\ncycles." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3b8e77c7abab40e6de9ad9de730d77984a498840","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"643221da57dbb1a8fd800610331cf1ec27969f71"},{"version":"d9d8560b9b7932f8cffc4c068c14289220900f79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b17f0c59cc1525765625cf07d0391b7f9c1ed7e5"},{"version":"6b6ba87579c7e7c669e0bec91823e7fb693bc5df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7a2890028f16e5b0af0bb005d80fcb32559cca3"},{"version":"6ef1f2926c41ab96952d9696d55a052f1b3a9418","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15fd83a1e42ede15070968806bb6c8b1a5170688"},{"version":"f9761add6d100962a23996cb68f3d6abdd4d1815","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce261a20b41db522e320a41bbf1292bf85af66df"},{"version":"af782cc8871e3683ddd5a3cd2f7df526599863a9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3ca2631073b2cef06824fd2bfc452ff7a1023de"},{"version":"a0b7091c4de45a7325c8780e6934a894f92ac86b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e34fa9f6f7cd688ae153fff13139a5cf2d42339"},{"version":"a0b7091c4de45a7325c8780e6934a894f92ac86b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f060496d03e4dc560a40f73770bd08335cb7a27"},{"version":"763e838adc3c7ec5a7df2990ce84cad951e42721","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.261"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.212"},{"version":"6.1.169","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.177"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.144"},{"version":"6.12.77","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.95"},{"version":"6.18.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.38"},{"version":"6.19.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.38","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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