CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 2.1
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/NONE/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2009-02-27
Last Modified Date: 2018-10-11