Bug 2424859 (CVE-2025-68733) - CVE-2025-68733 kernel: smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
Summary: CVE-2025-68733 kernel: smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68733
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 11:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 18:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 11:01:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels

If an unprivileged task is allowed to relabel itself
(/smack/relabel-self is not empty),
it can freely create new labels by writing their
names into own /proc/PID/attr/smack/current

This occurs because do_setattr() imports
the provided label in advance,
before checking "relabel-self" list.

This change ensures that the "relabel-self" list
is checked before importing the label.


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