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CVE-2015-7613

Public on 2015-10-19
Modified on 2017-10-13
Description

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPC subsystem initialized certain fields in an IPC object structure that were later used for permission checking before inserting the object into a globally visible list. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to elevate their privileges on the system.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2015-10-27 13:40 ALAS-2015-603

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C