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CVE-2010-5328

Published: Feb 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa2755e20ab0c7215d99c2dc7c262e98a09b01df

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fa2755e20ab0c7215d99c2dc7c262e98a09b01df

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f20011457f41c11edb5ea5038ad0c8ea9f392023

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http://ftp.naist.jp/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f106eee10038c2ee5b6056aaf3f6d5229be6dcdd

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f20011457f41c11edb5ea5038ad0c8ea9f392023

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[oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE REQUEST: linux kernel: process with pgid zero able to crash

mailing-list

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f106eee10038c2ee5b6056aaf3f6d5229be6dcdd

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vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358840

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