CVE-2011-1182 Information

Description

kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to spoof the uid and pid of a signal sender via a sigqueueinfo system call.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=da48524eb20662618854bb3df2db01fc65f3070c http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690028 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/da48524eb20662618854bb3df2db01fc65f3070c