CVE-2007-3848
Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG).
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-3848
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00007.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=118711306802632&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=openwall-announce&m=118710356812637&w=2