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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-35508): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 25, 2021
Added
Feb 26, 2021
Modified
Aug 18, 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.

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