USN-3247-1: AppArmor vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• apparmor - Linux security system

Details

Stéphane Graber discovered that AppArmor incorrectly unloaded some profiles
when restarted or upgraded, contrary to expected behavior.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10

• apparmor - 2.10.95-4ubuntu5.3

Ubuntu 16.04

• apparmor - 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6

Ubuntu 14.04

• apparmor - 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• apparmor - 2.7.102-0ubuntu3.11

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

A new utility, called aa-remove-unknown, was added to assist with profiles that
would have been previously unloaded when AppArmor was restarted or upgraded.

References

• CVE-2017-6507