CVE-2007-4774: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.4.35

Published 2020-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.