{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72456 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72456 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72456 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72456 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72456 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72456/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72456/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72456","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72456/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72456","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72456","GHSA-9fj6-7jcr-96f8","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72456"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A resource leak in the Linux kernel AppArmor module allows local attackers to exhaust system resources, potentially causing denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\napparmor: release exe file resources on path failure\n\nget_current_exe_path() takes both an exe_file reference and a path\nreference before resolving the path name. If aa_path_name() failed, it\nreturned immediately and leaked both references.\n\nRoute the failure through the common cleanup path so fput() and path_put()\nalways run after the references are acquired.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"apparmor: release exe file resources on path failure","id":"CVE-2026-72456","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"apparmor: fail policy unpack on accept2 allocation failure","id":"CVE-2026-72457"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"apparmor: fix uninitialised pointer passed to audit_log_untrustedstring()","id":"CVE-2026-72455"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A resource leak in the Linux kernel AppArmor module allows local attackers to exhaust system resources, potentially causing denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72456/"}