An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.
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| Description | An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument. | |
| Title | uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-20 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
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Updated: 2026-04-22T17:48:32.873Z
Reserved: 2026-04-02T12:58:56.088Z
Link: CVE-2026-35369
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-22T17:16:40.687
Modified: 2026-04-22T17:16:40.687
Link: CVE-2026-35369
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