Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2015-7613
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.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (33.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 33.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2636.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3372 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2765-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2762-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf (Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2763-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)