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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:34:24 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE-2009-0028 Linux kernel minor signal handling vulnerability
Reported by Chris Evans:
It's a relatively minor signal issue where a child can send its parent
process an arbitrary signal, even if the parent has a totally separate
real and effective user id. This could be a nuisance in the case where
long-running root daemons spawn direct child processes owned by
untrusted users [*]. There may even be worse consequences if privileged
processes have weak signal handling code for signals not normally
triggerable by untrusted users.
This is fixed in upstream kernel - 2d5516cbb9d
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0028
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-002.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/linux-kernel-minor-signal-vulnerability.html
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2d5516cbb9daf7d0e342a2e3b0fc6f8c39a81205
Thanks, Eugene
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Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team
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