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CVE-2015-7613

Date: October 19, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (30)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00026.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/8

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76977

Url: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2636.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7613

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2765-1

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2764-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2763-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2762-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2761-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00032.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00027.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7613

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00031.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3372

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034094

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf

Url: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10146

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.html

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268270

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00028.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-7613

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2015-7613

Date: October 19, 2015

Language: C

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