Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces
Currently the number of policy namespaces is not bounded relying on the user namespace limit. However policy namespaces aren’t strictly tied to user namespaces and it is possible to create them and nest them arbitrarily deep which can be used to exhaust system resource.
Hard cap policy namespaces to the same depth as user namespaces.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 3.10.0 (+15 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | Ready For Release | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 AWS HWE ESM | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 GCP ESM | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 HWE ESM | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 Azure | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 GCP | Planned | — |