Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting kernel-rt-trace package, versions <0:3.10.0-327.rt56.204.el7


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-RHEL7-KERNELRTTRACE-4583174
  • 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)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-rt-trace to version 0:3.10.0-327.rt56.204.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:2411.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace package and not the kernel-rt-trace package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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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