CVE-2007-4774
The Linux kernel before 2.4.36-rc1 has a race condition. It was possible to bypass systrace policies by flooding the ptraced process with SIGCONT signals, which can can wake up a PTRACED process.
02 Description
The Linux kernel before 2.4.36-rc1 has a race condition. It was possible to bypass systrace policies by flooding the ptraced process with SIGCONT signals, which can can wake up a PTRACED process.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.73% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-01-15 16:37Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 15:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-09-10
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 2ef116443150b56cdbfbd7d22bf0c3dc7cbd296d255439a4457d0e4d46eea58b
05 Affected products
06 References
- taviso.decsystem.orghttp://taviso.decsystem.org/research.html
- osdn.nethttps://osdn.net/projects/linux-kernel-docs/scm/git/linux-2.4.36/listCommit?skip=60
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200204-0002/
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- linux No fix yet
- linux-aws No fix yet
- linux-azure No fix yet
- linux-lts-xenial No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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