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rename: IAMROOT → SKELETONKEY across the entire project
Breaking change. Tool name, binary name, function/type names,
constant names, env vars, header guards, file paths, and GitHub
repo URL all rebrand IAMROOT → SKELETONKEY.

Changes:
  - All "IAMROOT" → "SKELETONKEY" (constants, env vars, enum
    values, docs, comments)
  - All "iamroot" → "skeletonkey" (functions, types, paths, CLI)
  - iamroot.c → skeletonkey.c
  - modules/*/iamroot_modules.{c,h} → modules/*/skeletonkey_modules.{c,h}
  - tools/iamroot-fleet-scan.sh → tools/skeletonkey-fleet-scan.sh
  - Binary "iamroot" → "skeletonkey"
  - GitHub URL KaraZajac/IAMROOT → KaraZajac/SKELETONKEY
  - .gitignore now expects build output named "skeletonkey"
  - /tmp/iamroot-* tmpfiles → /tmp/skeletonkey-*
  - Env vars IAMROOT_MODPROBE_PATH etc. → SKELETONKEY_*

New ASCII skeleton-key banner (horizontal key icon + ANSI Shadow
SKELETONKEY block letters) replaces the IAMROOT banner in
skeletonkey.c and README.md.

VERSION: 0.3.1 → 0.4.0 (breaking).

Build clean on Debian 6.12.86. `skeletonkey --version` → 0.4.0.
All 24 modules still register; no functional code changes — pure
rename + banner refresh.
2026-05-16 22:43:49 -04:00

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NOTICE — nft_fwd_dup (CVE-2022-25636)

Vulnerability

CVE-2022-25636nft_fwd_dup_netdev_offload writes flow->rule->action.entries[ctx->num_actions] without bounds-checking against the allocated array size → heap OOB write in kmalloc-512.

Research credit

Discovered and disclosed by Aaron Adams (NCC Group), February 2022.

Original writeup: https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/03/02/exploit-engineering-attacking-the-linux-kernel/

Upstream fix: mainline 5.17 (commit fa54fee62954, Feb 2022). Branch backports: 5.16.11 / 5.15.25 / 5.10.102 / 5.4.181.

SKELETONKEY role

userns+netns reach. Hand-rolled nfnetlink batch: NEWTABLE → NEWCHAIN with NFT_CHAIN_HW_OFFLOAD → NEWRULE with 16 immediates

  • fwd, overruning action.entries[1]. msg_msg cross-cache groom into kmalloc-512 with SKELETONKEY_FWD tags.

--full-chain extends with stride-seeded forged action_entry overwrite aimed at modprobe_path via the shared finisher.