cve-2020-35508
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 16:45
Modified
2024-08-04 17:02
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.05019)
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Version: kernel 5.12
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