• A set of AppArmor vulnerabilities

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Sat Mar 14 06:40:09 2026
    Qualys has sent out a
    somewhat breathless advisory describing a number of vulnerabilities in
    the AppArmor security module, which is used in a number of Debian-based distributions (among others).

    This "CrackArmor" advisory exposes a confused-deputy flaw allowing
    unprivileged users to manipulate security profiles via
    pseudo-files, bypass user-namespace restrictions, and execute
    arbitrary code within the kernel. These flaws facilitate local
    privilege escalation to root through complex interactions with
    tools like Sudo and Postfix, alongside denial-of-service attacks
    via stack exhaustion and Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization
    (KASLR) bypasses via out-of-bounds reads.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1062778/
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