UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7613

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7613

    Published: 2 Oct 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7613
    Aliases:
    USN-2761-1
    USN-2762-1
    USN-2763-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7613, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9a532277938, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2764-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2763-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2761-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2762-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2765-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2792-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2796-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7613

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-65.106

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High