kernel/linux.git/security/apparmor/policy.c, branch v6.6.131

apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit a0b7091c4de45a7325c8780e6934a894f92ac86b upstream. There is a race condition that leads to a use-after-free situation: because the rawdata inodes are not refcounted, an attacker can start open()ing one of the rawdata files, and at the same time remove the last reference to this rawdata (by removing the corresponding profile, for example), which frees its struct aa_loaddata; as a result, when seq_rawdata_open() is reached, i_private is a dangling pointer and freed memory is accessed. The rawdata inodes weren't refcounted to avoid a circular refcount and were supposed to be held by the profile rawdata reference. However during profile removal there is a window where the vfs and profile destruction race, resulting in the use after free. Fix this by moving to a double refcount scheme. Where the profile refcount on rawdata is used to break the circular dependency. Allowing for freeing of the rawdata once all inode references to the rawdata are put. Fixes: 5d5182cae401 ("apparmor: move to per loaddata files, instead of replicating in profiles") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Maxime Bélair Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit 6601e13e82841879406bf9f369032656f441a425 upstream. An unprivileged local user can load, replace, and remove profiles by opening the apparmorfs interfaces, via a confused deputy attack, by passing the opened fd to a privileged process, and getting the privileged process to write to the interface. This does require a privileged target that can be manipulated to do the write for the unprivileged process, but once such access is achieved full policy management is possible and all the possible implications that implies: removing confinement, DoS of system or target applications by denying all execution, by-passing the unprivileged user namespace restriction, to exploiting kernel bugs for a local privilege escalation. The policy management interface can not have its permissions simply changed from 0666 to 0600 because non-root processes need to be able to load policy to different policy namespaces. Instead ensure the task writing the interface has privileges that are a subset of the task that opened the interface. This is already done via policy for confined processes, but unconfined can delegate access to the opened fd, by-passing the usual policy check. Fixes: b7fd2c0340eac ("apparmor: add per policy ns .load, .replace, .remove interface files") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit 5df0c44e8f5f619d3beb871207aded7c78414502 upstream. if ns_name is NULL after 1071 error = aa_unpack(udata, &lh, &ns_name); and if ent->ns_name contains an ns_name in 1089 } else if (ent->ns_name) { then ns_name is assigned the ent->ns_name 1095 ns_name = ent->ns_name; however ent->ns_name is freed at 1262 aa_load_ent_free(ent); and then again when freeing ns_name at 1270 kfree(ns_name); Fix this by NULLing out ent->ns_name after it is transferred to ns_name Fixes: 145a0ef21c8e9 ("apparmor: fix blob compression when ns is forced on a policy load") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit ab09264660f9de5d05d1ef4e225aa447c63a8747 upstream. The profile removal code uses recursion when removing nested profiles, which can lead to kernel stack exhaustion and system crashes. Reproducer: $ pf='a'; for ((i=0; i<1024; i++)); do echo -e "profile $pf { \n }" | apparmor_parser -K -a; pf="$pf//x"; done $ echo -n a > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove Replace the recursive __aa_profile_list_release() approach with an iterative approach in __remove_profile(). The function repeatedly finds and removes leaf profiles until the entire subtree is removed, maintaining the same removal semantic without recursion. Fixes: c88d4c7b049e ("AppArmor: core policy routines") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: refcount the pdb

2026-03-04T12:20:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 98b824ff8984fd523fc264fbb13208098ab09da3 ] With the move to permission tables the dfa is no longer a stand alone entity when used, needing a minimum of a permission table. However it still could be shared among different pdbs each using a different permission table. Instead of duping the permission table when sharing a pdb, add a refcount to the pdb so it can be easily shared. Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: a4c9efa4dbad ("apparmor: make label_match return a consistent value") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: use passed in gfp flags in aa_alloc_null()

2026-03-04T12:20:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit afad53575a938ceb557227ecfeb0dda59d668d4e ] These allocations should use the gfp flags from the caller instead of GFP_KERNEL. But from what I can see, all the callers pass in GFP_KERNEL so this does not affect runtime. Fixes: e31dd6e412f7 ("apparmor: fix: kzalloc perms tables for shared dfas") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: a4c9efa4dbad ("apparmor: make label_match return a consistent value") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: use kvfree_sensitive to free data->data

2024-08-03T06:54:16+00:00

commit 2bc73505a5cd2a18a7a542022722f136c19e3b87 upstream. Inside unpack_profile() data->data is allocated using kvmemdup() so it should be freed with the corresponding kvfree_sensitive(). Also add missing data->data release for rhashtable insertion failure path in unpack_profile(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org). Fixes: e025be0f26d5 ("apparmor: support querying extended trusted helper extra data") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: pass cred through to audit info.

2023-11-28T17:20:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 90c436a64a6e20482a9a613c47eb4af2e8a5328e ] The cred is needed to properly audit some messages, and will be needed in the future for uid conditional mediation. So pass it through to where the apparmor_audit_data struct gets defined. Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: 157a3537d6bc ("apparmor: Fix regression in mount mediation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: rename audit_data->label to audit_data->subj_label

2023-11-28T17:20:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit d20f5a1a6e792d22199c9989ec7ab9e95c48d60c ] rename audit_data's label field to subj_label to better reflect its use. Also at the same time drop unneeded assignments to ->subj_label as the later call to aa_check_perms will do the assignment if needed. Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: 157a3537d6bc ("apparmor: Fix regression in mount mediation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: combine common_audit_data and apparmor_audit_data

2023-11-28T17:20:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit bd7bd201ca46c211c3ab251ca9854787d1331a2f ] Everywhere where common_audit_data is used apparmor audit_data is also used. We can simplify the code and drop the use of the aad macro everywhere by combining the two structures. Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: 157a3537d6bc ("apparmor: Fix regression in mount mediation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin