CVE-2010-5328

Publication date

2017-02-06 06:04:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

include/linux/init_task.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not prevent signals with a process group ID of zero from reaching the swapper process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to this process group.