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CVE-2009-0028

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2009-02-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References