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Medium 5.5
uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation
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, potent…