CVE-2009-0028 (GCVE-0-2009-0028)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-02-27 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 04:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The clone system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 and earlier allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a parent process from an unprivileged child process by launching an additional child process with the CLONE_PARENT flag, and then letting this new process exit.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/35390 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0326.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/34962 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:118 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11187 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479932 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503610/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/33758 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33906 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/35120 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7947 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/34033 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1800 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/linux-kernel-minor-signal-vulnerability.html x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/34917 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://osvdb.org/52204 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0084 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0451.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/35121 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/34680 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/35394 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-002.html x_refsource_MISC
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