The clone system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 and...
Low severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 27, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
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.
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