CVE-2015-7613

Published Oct 19, 2015

Last updated 4 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.9
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-362

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

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