CVE-2025-68733 (GCVE-0-2025-68733)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:33 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:52
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Title
smack: fix bug: unprivileged task can create labels
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < c80173233014a360c13fa5cc79d36bfe6e53a8ed
(git)
Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < 6b1e45e13546c9ea0b1d99097993ac0aafae90b1 (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < 4a7a7621619a366712fb9cefcb6e69f956c247ce (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < f8fd5491100f920847a3338d5fba22db19c72773 (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < ac9fce2efabad37c338aac86fbe100f77a080e59 (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < 64aa81250171b6bb6803e97ea7a5d73bfa061f6e (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < 60e8d49989410a7ade60f5dadfcd979c117d05c0 (git) Affected: 38416e53936ecf896948fdeffc36b76979117952 , < c147e13ea7fe9f118f8c9ba5e96cbd644b00d6b3 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.63 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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