CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7613

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-10-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the IPC object implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an ipc_addid call that leads to uid and gid comparisons against uninitialized data, related to msg.c, shm.c, and util.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.72) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.10.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.50) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.55) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.2.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References