CVE-2007-3848

Publication date

2007-08-14 17:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG).