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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.
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NOTICE — overlayfs_setuid (CVE-2023-0386)

Vulnerability

CVE-2023-0386 — overlayfs copy_up preserves the setuid bit across mount-namespace boundaries → host root via a setuid carrier placed in the lower layer.

Research credit

Discovered and disclosed by Xkaneiki, January 2023.

Public PoC + writeup: https://github.com/xkaneiki/CVE-2023-0386

Upstream fix: mainline 6.2-rc6 (commit 4f11ada10d0a, Jan 2023). Branch backports: 5.10.169 / 5.15.92 / 6.1.11.

SKELETONKEY role

Distro-agnostic — no per-kernel offsets, no race. Places a setuid binary in an overlay lower, mounts via fuse-overlayfs userns trick, executes from the upper layer to inherit the setuid bit + root euid.

Auditd rules cover overlayfs mounts and unexpected setuid copy-ups.