Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's init_task.h

CVE-2010-5328 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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