CVE-2020-35508

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 26, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Dec 17, 2020

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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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kerneln/a
  • kernel 5.12Affected

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