pack2theroot (CVE-2026-41651) + --auto accuracy work

Adds the third ported module — Pack2TheRoot, a userspace PackageKit
D-Bus TOCTOU LPE — and spends real effort hardening --auto so its
detect step gives an accurate, robust verdict before deploying.

pack2theroot (CVE-2026-41651):
- Ported from the public Vozec PoC
  (github.com/Vozec/CVE-2026-41651). Original disclosure by the
  Deutsche Telekom security team.
- Two back-to-back InstallFiles D-Bus calls (SIMULATE then NONE)
  overwrite the cached transaction flags between polkit auth and
  dispatch. GLib priority ordering makes the overwrite deterministic,
  not a timing race; postinst of the malicious .deb drops a SUID bash
  in /tmp.
- detect() reads PackageKit's VersionMajor/Minor/Micro directly over
  D-Bus and compares against the pinned fix release 1.3.5 (commit
  76cfb675). This is a high-confidence verdict, not precondition-only.
- Debian-family only (PoC builds its own .deb in pure C; ar/ustar/
  gzip-stored inline). Cleanup removes /tmp .debs + best-effort
  unlinks /tmp/.suid_bash + sudo -n dpkg -r the staging packages.
- Adds an optional GLib/GIO build dependency. The top-level Makefile
  autodetects via `pkg-config gio-2.0`; when absent the module
  compiles as a stub returning PRECOND_FAIL.
- Embedded auditd + sigma rules cover the file-side footprint
  (/tmp/.suid_bash, /tmp/.pk-*.deb, non-root dpkg/apt execve).

--auto accuracy improvements:
- Auto-enables --active before the scan. Per-module sentinel probes
  (page-cache /tmp files, fork-isolated namespace mounts) turn
  version-only checks into definitive verdicts, so silent distro
  backports don't fool the scan and --auto won't pick blind on
  TEST_ERROR.
- Per-module verdict printing — every module's result is shown
  (VULNERABLE / patched / precondition / indeterminate), not just
  VULNERABLE rows. Operator sees the full picture.
- Scan-end summary line: "N vulnerable, M patched/n.a., K
  precondition-fail, L indeterminate" with a separate callout when
  modules crashed.
- Distro fingerprint added to the auto banner (ID + VERSION_ID from
  /etc/os-release alongside kernel/arch).
- Fork-isolated detect() — each detector runs in a child process so
  a SIGILL/SIGSEGV in one module's probe is contained and the scan
  continues. Surfaced live while testing: entrybleed's prefetchnta
  KASLR sweep SIGILLs on emulated CPUs (linuxkit on darwin); without
  isolation the whole --auto died at module 7 of 31. With isolation
  the scan reports "detect() crashed (signal 4) — continuing" and
  finishes cleanly.

module_safety_rank additions:
- pack2theroot: 95 (userspace D-Bus TOCTOU; dpkg + /tmp SUID footprint
  — clean but heavier than pwnkit's gconv-modules-only path).
- dirtydecrypt / fragnesia: 86 (page-cache writes; one step below the
  verified copy_fail/dirty_frag family at 88 to prefer verified
  modules when both apply).

Docs:
- README badge / tagline / tier table /  block / example output /
  v0.5.0 status — all updated to "28 verified + 3 ported".
- CVES.md counts line, the ported-modules note (now calling out
  pack2theroot's high-confidence detect vs. precondition-only for
  the page-cache pair), inventory row, operations table row.
- ROADMAP Phase 7+: pack2theroot moved out of carry-overs into the
  "landed (ported, pending VM verification)" group; added a new
  "--auto accuracy work" subsection documenting the dispatcher
  hardening landed in this commit.
- docs/index.html: scanning-count example bumped to 31, status line
  updated to mention 3 ported modules.

Build verification: full `make clean && make` in `docker gcc:latest`
with libglib2.0-dev installed: links into a 31-module skeletonkey
ELF (413KB), `--list` shows all modules including pack2theroot,
`--detect-rules --format=auditd` emits the new pack2theroot section,
`--auto --i-know --no-shell` exercises the new banner + active
probes + verdict table + fork isolation + scan summary end-to-end.
Only build warning is the pre-existing
`-Wunterminated-string-initialization` in dirty_pipe (not introduced
here).
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@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ uid=1000(kara) gid=1000(kara) groups=1000(kara)
<span class="prompt">$</span> skeletonkey --auto --i-know
<span class="hl-muted">[*]</span> auto: host=demo kernel=5.15.0-56-generic arch=x86_64
<span class="hl-muted">[*]</span> auto: scanning 30 modules for vulnerabilities...
<span class="hl-muted">[*]</span> auto: scanning 31 modules for vulnerabilities...
<span class="hl-green">[+]</span> auto: dirty_pipe <span class="hl-yellow">VULNERABLE</span> (safety rank 90)
<span class="hl-green">[+]</span> auto: cgroup_release_agent <span class="hl-yellow">VULNERABLE</span> (safety rank 98)
<span class="hl-green">[+]</span> auto: pwnkit <span class="hl-yellow">VULNERABLE</span> (safety rank 100)
@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)</pre>
<p class="lead">
<strong>v0.5.0</strong> cut 2026-05-17. 28 verified modules build
clean on Debian 13 (kernel 6.12) and refuse cleanly on patched
hosts; 2 further modules (dirtydecrypt, fragnesia) are ported
from public PoCs but not yet VM-verified.
hosts; 3 further modules (dirtydecrypt, fragnesia, pack2theroot)
are ported from public PoCs but not yet VM-verified.
Empirical end-to-end validation on a vulnerable-kernel VM matrix
is the next roadmap item; until then, the corpus is best
understood as "compiles + detects + structurally correct +