In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix possible NULL pointer dereference profile->parent->dents[AAFS_PROF_DIR] could be NULL only if its parent is made from __create_missing_ancestors(..) and 'ent->old' is NULL in aa_replace_profiles(..). In that case, it must return an error code and the code, -ENOENT represents its state that the path of its parent is not existed yet. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030 PGD 0 P4D 0 PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 3362 Comm: apparmor_parser Not tainted 6.8.0-24-generic #24 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:aafs_create.constprop.0+0x7f/0x130 Code: 4c 63 e0 48 83 c4 18 4c 89 e0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff 45 31 c0 45 31 c9 45 31 d2 c3 cc cc cc cc <4d> 8b 55 30 4d 8d ba a0 00 00 00 4c 89 55 c0 4c 89 ff e8 7a 6a ae RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b2c7c98 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000041ed RCX: 0…