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Race Condition Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.39-400.264.13.el5uek

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2510030
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 19 Oct 2015
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Introduced: 19 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-7613 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-362 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:2.6.39-400.264.13.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2016-3502.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug package and not the kernel-uek-debug package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.8 high
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Red Hat

7.4 high