Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / kernel | affected kernel 5.12 |
CWE
CWE-665
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210513-0006/
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.