CVE-2015-7613

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

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

Publication date:

19/10/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.2.72 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.3 (including)	3.4.111 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.5 (including)	3.10.91 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.11 (including)	3.12.50 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.13 (including)	3.14.55 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.15 (including)	3.16.35 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.17 (including)	3.18.23 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.19 (including)	4.1.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.2 (including)	4.2.4 (excluding)

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CVE-2015-7613

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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