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CWE-432 Dangerous Signal Handler not Disabled During Sensitive Operations

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Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
Languages
Not Language-Specific
CWE version
5.0

Description

The product uses a signal handler that shares state with other signal handlers, but it does not properly mask or prevent those signal handlers from being invoked while the original signal handler is still running.

Common consequences

• Integrity: Modify Application Data — If two handlers share state - such as global variables - then an attacker can corrupt the state by sending another signal before the first handler has completed execution.

Potential mitigations

• [Implementation] Turn off dangerous handlers when performing sensitive operations.

Related

Child of · CWE (1)

  • CWE-364 Signal Handler Race Condition weakness