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The uprobes security tag covers discussions about the security implications of user-space probes (uprobes) in the Linux kernel, particularly following CVE-2025-38466. This vulnerability led to a hardening change requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN to install or use uprobes, as they could be placed destructively in the middle of an instruction, especially on architectures like arm64 that mix data and code in the text segment. The tag includes analysis of the tightened privilege boundary for dynamic user-space instrumentation and its impact on system security.
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    Linux Uprobes Hardened: CAP_SYS_ADMIN Required After CVE-2025-38466

    The Linux kernel has been updated to treat uprobes in the perf subsystem as an administrative privilege: the kernel now requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN to install or use uprobes, a change recorded as CVE-2025-38466 and adopted by multiple distributions and vendors. This is a surgical but consequential...
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