10 Release_Notes_2.14
John Johansen edited this page 2019-12-01 23:36:18 +00:00

Introduction

AppArmor 2.14 is an incremental release of the user space components of the AppArmor security project. The kernel portion of the project is maintained and pushed separately.

This version of the userspace should work with all kernel versions from 2.6.15 and later (some earlier version of the kernel if they have the apparmor patches applied). And supports features released in the 4.16 kernel and ubuntu 16.10 kernel with the apparmor 3 development patches.

Note: These release notes cover all changes between 2.13 (f97782b100) and 2.14 (???) wip 6757434350.

Highlighted new features

  • xattr based profile attachment conditionals

Obtaining the Release

These release notes cover all changes between 2.13 (f97782b100) and 2.14 (???) apparmor-2.14 branch.

Tarball

Changes in this Release

Includes all the bug fixes and improvements in

And the following improvements

Build Infrastructure

Policy Compiler (a.k.a apparmor_parser)

Init

Library

pam_apparmor

Utils

  • genprof/logprof

  • aa-status: split profile from exec name

  • aa-nofify

Policy

  • abstractions

Documentation

Translations

  • merge in .de translation updates from launchpad

Tests

  • parser

  • libapparmor

  • utils

  • regression tests

Note

There is a semantic change in the 4.8 kernel (commit 9f834ec18defc369d73ccf9e87a2790bfa05bf46 fixing CVE-2019-11190) that affects apparmor policy enforcement. Specifically it affects when the m permission bit is checked for elf binary executables. Policy and tests within apparmor 2.12 and later have been updated to support running on pre 4.8 and 4.8+ kernels.