vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2020-35508: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Added
Jun 1, 2021
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-kernelcentos-upgrade-kernel-rt
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