Privilege Escalation via Uninitialized Data Comparison in Linux Kernel IPC Object Implementation

CVE-2015-7613 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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