CVE-2009-0028

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-02-27

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.

See more information about CVE-2009-0028 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	2.1	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-0459	2009-05-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-0459	2009-05-01
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-0459	2009-05-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01

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