USN-2763-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability
7
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
10/05/2015
07/25/2018
10/07/2015
07/09/2020
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-65-generic
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-65-generic-lpae
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