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USN-1039-1: AppArmor update

7 January 2011

AppArmor did not properly handle execute permissions under certain circumstances.

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Releases

Packages

  • apparmor - User-space parser utility for AppArmor

Details

It was discovered that if AppArmor was misconfigured, under certain
circumstances the parser could generate policy using an unconfined fallback
execute transition when one was not specified.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.