CVE-2015-7613

medium
Published 2015-10-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7613

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.2.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.2.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.2.3-1
debian debiansidfixed4.2.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.2.3-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.2.72

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.