CVE-2015-7613

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 19
Modified
Published: 19 Oct 2015, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 07:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
38/100
CVSS Score
6.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.08% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Oct 2015, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 07:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.08%• Percentile: 24%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-362•Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

    The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 3.2.72 | ≥ 3.3, < 3.4.111 | ≥ 3.5, < 3.10.91 | ≥ 3.11, < 3.12.50 | ≥ 3.13, < 3.14.55 | ≥ 3.15, < 3.16.35 | ≥ 3.17, < 3.18.23 | ≥ 3.19, < 4.1.11 | ≥ 4.2, < 4.2.4

References (26)