CVE-2020-35508
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 16:45
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210513-0006/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/akernel
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