CVE-2015-7613
medium
CVSS v3
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7613
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.2.3-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.2.3-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.2.3-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.2.3-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.2.3-1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | 3.2.72 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7613.html
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00032.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2636.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3372
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/8
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76977
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034094
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2761-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2762-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2763-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2764-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2765-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268270
CWEs
CWE-362
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.