CVE-2007-3848 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-3848 at MITRE

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	1.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 296871 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:051, published Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2007:053, published Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:006, published Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:017, published Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:43:38 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:00 2025