CVE-2007-4774

kernel: race condition can wake up a PTRACED process

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 17, 2007

Updated · June 28, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')