Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting perf package, versions <0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PERF-1502180
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Oct 2015

Introduced: 1 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-7613  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 perf to version 0:2.6.32-573.12.1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:2636.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.

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