CVE-2015-7613

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-10-01
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Race condition in the IPC object implementation in the Linux kernelthrough 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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.2
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2016-3502	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el5uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el5uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.2.1.el6uek)	ELSA-2015-3101	2015-11-27
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2015-2636	2015-12-15
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2015-3101	2015-11-27
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2016-3502	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 6 (mlnx_en-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 6 (ofa-2.6.32-400.37.15.el6uek)	ELSA-2016-3503	2016-01-08
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.2.1.el7uek)	ELSA-2015-3101	2015-11-27
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel)	ELSA-2015-2152	2015-11-24
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2015-3101	2015-11-27
Oracle VM version 3.2 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2016-0037	2016-03-16
Oracle VM version 3.3 (kernel-uek)	OVMSA-2015-0150	2015-11-30