Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2009-0028

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.

EPSS: 0.007 (49.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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