MEDIUM 4.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-35508

A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Mar: A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.

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Published: 2021-03-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-20
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.5 was published on 2021-03-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 kernel 5.10.60.1-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 kernel 5.10.78.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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