{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-12-09T10:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent",
    "id" : "1902724",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902724"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-665",
  "details" : [ "A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process.", "A flaw possibility of race condition and incorrect initialization of the process id was found in the Linux kernel child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers.  A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process." ],
  "statement" : "The incorrect initialization of the process id affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux only.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Eddy Wu (trendmicro.com) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1739",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-305.rt7.72.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1578",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-305.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2021-07-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:2719",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-193.60.2.rt13.112.el8_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2021-07-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:2718",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-193.60.2.el8_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35508\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35508" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-35508",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}