Race condition in the IPC object implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs

Affected products

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  • affected n/a

References (26)

• RHSA-2015:2636 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2765-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2792-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2762-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1727 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2763-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1034094 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b9a532277938798b53178d5a66af6e2915cb27cf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1034592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10146 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268270 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2091 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2764-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20151001 CVE Request: Unauthorized access to IPC objects with SysV shm (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 76977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2084 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2761-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:2090 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 07:51 UTC.