vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-35508: CVE-2020-35508 kernel: fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
2021-03-26
Added
2021-05-21
Modified
2025-01-28

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.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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