kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in the piperesizering. The race condition occurs when a thread uses ioctlIOCWATCHQUEUESETSIZE to resize the pipe buffer and free the old pipe buffer, while another thread uses keyctl to trigger a notification in th...

kernel: watch queue race condition can lead to privilege escalation

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's watch queue due to a missing lock in the piperesizering. The race condition occurs when a thread uses ioctlIOCWATCHQUEUESETSIZE to resize the pipe buffer and free the old pipe buffer, while another thread uses keyctl to trigger a notification in th...