Qualys CrackArmor Hits 12M Linux AppArmor Systems
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has uncovered CrackArmor, a cluster of nine vulnerabilities in the AppArmor Linux Security Module that have persisted since kernel version 4.11 in 2017, potentially compromising over 12.6 million enterprise systems running Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE distributions. These confused deputy...
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Qualys CrackArmor Hits 12M Linux AppArmor Systems
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has uncovered CrackArmor, a cluster of nine vulnerabilities in the AppArmor Linux Security Module that have persisted since kernel version 4.11 in 2017, potentially compromising over 12.6 million enterprise systems running Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE distributions. These confused deputy flaws allow unprivileged local attackers to manipulate trusted processes, writing to protected pseudo-files like /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.load, .replace and .remove to arbitrarily...
