CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3339

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2015-05-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the prepare_binprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program at a time instant when a chown to root is in progress, and the ownership is changed but the setuid bit is not yet stripped.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.19.5) • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References