CVE-2009-0028 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/52204 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-002.html http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/linux-kernel-minor-signal-vulnerability.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33758 http://secunia.com/advisories/34033 http://secunia.com/advisories/34680 http://secunia.com/advisories/34917 http://secunia.com/advisories/34962 http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 http://secunia.com/advisories/35120 http://secunia.com/advisories/35121 http://secunia.com/advisories/35390 http://secunia.com/advisories/35394 http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0084 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1800 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:118 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0326.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0451.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503610/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33906 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479932 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11187 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7947