AppArmor

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Introduction

AppArmor protects systems from insecure or untrusted processes by running them in restricted confinement, while still allowing processes to share files, exercise privilege and communicate with other processes. AppArmor is a Mandatory Access Control (MAC) mechanism which uses the Linux Security Module (LSM) framework. The confinement's restrictions are mandatory and are not bound to identity, group membership, or object ownership. The protections provided are in addition to the kernel's regular access control mechanisms (including DAC) and can be used to restrict the superuser.

The AppArmor kernel module and accompanying user-space tools are available under the GPL license (the exception is the libapparmor library, available under the LGPL license, which allows change_hat(2) and change_profile(2) to be used by non-GPL binaries).

For more information, you can read the techdoc.pdf (available after building the parser) and by visiting the https://apparmor.net/ web site.

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Getting in Touch

Please send all complaints, feature requests, rants about the software, and questions to the AppArmor mailing list.

Bug reports can be filed against the AppArmor project on launchpad or reported to the mailing list directly for those who wish not to register for an account on launchpad. See the wiki page for more information.

Security issues can be filed as security bugs on launchpad or directed to security@apparmor.net. Additional details can be found in the wiki.

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Source Layout

AppArmor consists of several different parts:

changehat/ source for using changehat with Apache, PAM and Tomcat common/ common makefile rules desktop/ empty kernel-patches/ compatibility patches for various kernel versions libraries/ libapparmor source and language bindings parser/ source for parser/loader and corresponding documentation profiles/ configuration files, reference profiles and abstractions tests/ regression and stress testsuites utils/ high-level utilities for working with AppArmor

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Important note on AppArmor kernel code
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While most of the kernel AppArmor code has been accepted in the
upstream Linux kernel, a few important pieces were not included. These
missing pieces unfortunately are important bits for AppArmor userspace
and kernel interaction; therefore we have included compatibility
patches in the kernel-patches/ subdirectory, versioned by upstream
kernel (2.6.37 patches should apply cleanly to 2.6.38 source).

Without these patches applied to the kernel, the AppArmor userspace
will not function correctly.

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Building and Installing AppArmor Userspace
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To build and install AppArmor userspace on your system, build and install in
the following order. Some systems may need to export various python-related
environment variables to complete the build. For example, before building
anything on these systems, use something along the lines of:

$ export PYTHONPATH=$(realpath libraries/libapparmor/swig/python) $ export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 $ export PYTHON_VERSION=3 $ export PYTHON_VERSIONS=python3

libapparmor:

$ cd ./libraries/libapparmor $ sh ./autogen.sh $ sh ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-perl --with-python # see below $ make $ make check $ make install

[an additional optional argument to libapparmor's configure is --with-ruby, to
generate Ruby bindings to libapparmor.]


Utilities:
$ cd utils
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

parser:

$ cd parser
$ make		# depends on libapparmor having been built first
$ make check
$ make install

Apache mod_apparmor:

$ cd changehat/mod_apparmor
$ make		# depends on libapparmor having been built first
$ make install

PAM AppArmor:

$ cd changehat/pam_apparmor
$ make		# depends on libapparmor having been built first
$ make install

Profiles:

$ cd profiles
$ make
$ make check	# depends on the parser having been built first
$ make install

[Note that for the parser and the utils, if you only with to build/use some of the locale languages, you can override the default by passing the LANGS arguments to make; e.g. make all install "LANGS=en_US fr".]

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AppArmor Testsuites

A number of testsuites are in the AppArmor sources. Most have documentation on usage and how to update and add tests. Below is a quick overview of their location and how to run them.

Regression tests

For details on structure and adding tests, see tests/regression/apparmor/README.

To run:

$ cd tests/regression/apparmor (requires root)
$ make
$ sudo make tests
$ sudo bash open.sh -r	 # runs and saves the last testcase from open.sh

Parser tests

For details on structure and adding tests, see parser/tst/README.

To run:

$ cd parser/tst
$ make
$ make tests

Libapparmor

For details on structure and adding tests, see libraries/libapparmor/README.

$ cd libraries/libapparmor
$ make check

Utils

Tests for the Python utilities exist in the test/ subdirectory.

$ cd utils
$ make check

The aa-decode utility to be tested can be overridden by setting up environment variable APPARMOR_DECODE; e.g.:

$ APPARMOR_DECODE=/usr/bin/aa-decode make check

Profile checks

A basic consistency check to ensure that the parser and aa-logprof parse successfully the current set of shipped profiles. The system or other parser and logprof can be passed in by overriding the PARSER and LOGPROF variables.

$ cd profiles
$ make && make check

Stress Tests

To run AppArmor stress tests:

$ make all

Use these:

$ ./change_hat
$ ./child
$ ./kill.sh
$ ./open
$ ./s.sh

Or run all at once:

$ ./stress.sh

Please note that the above will stress the system so much it may end up invoking the OOM killer.

To run parser stress tests (requires /usr/bin/ruby):

$ ./stress.sh

(see stress.sh -h for options)

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Building and Installing AppArmor Kernel Patches

TODO

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Required versions

The AppArmor userspace utilities are written with some assumptions about installed and available versions of other tools. This is a (possibly incomplete) list of known version dependencies:

The Python utilities require a minimum of Python 2.7 or Python 3.3.

Some utilities (aa-exec, aa-notify and aa-decode) require Perl 5.10.1 or newer.

Most shell scripts are written for POSIX-compatible sh. aa-decode expects bash, probably version 3.2 and higher.