CVE-2015-7613 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7613?

CVE-2015-7613 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7613?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7613?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2015-7613 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7613 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7613, GHSA-c9h8-jpjh-qq7q, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7613, USN-2761-1, USN-2764-1, USN-2765-1.