CVE-2020-35508 (GCVE-0-2020-35508)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 16:45 – Updated: 2024-08-04 17:02
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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.
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n/a kernel Affected: kernel 5.12
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