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Nothing much to do for me. Just apply patches as normal.
Edit: I wonder how bad is it on Android
I don't think af_alg is exposed to non-root users on android.
Android doesn't have
su, which this proof of concept exploit requires. Although rooted Android does, so in theory malware written for rooted Android could escalate to root privileges.Also, the underlying vulnerabilities might be exploitable without
subut I don't fully understand theAF_ALGandauthencesnbug limits things, or what other executables can escalate privileges.Don't need specifically SU by my understanding. Just any suid executable.
Ah yeah. Plus apparently Android's default SELinux configuration blocks this separately, as well.
I wished android is affected but no