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Smack security handler for sendmsg() syscall is vulnerable to type confusion issue what can allow to privilege escalation into root or cause denial of service. A malicious attacker can create socket of one type for example AF_UNIX and pass is into sendmsg() function ensuring that this is AF_INET socket. Remedy Do not trust user supplied data. Proposed fix below. Signed-off-by: Roman Kubiak <r.kubiak@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Fruba <m.fruba@samsung.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>