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Tracker / CVE-2015-7613

CVE-2015-7613

Medium 6.9

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.72
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.50
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.55
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.23
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.11
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.111
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.91
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.2.4

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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