CVE-2015-3339

EPSS 0.3%

Race condition in the prepare_binprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program at a time instant when a chown to root is in progress, and the ownership is changed but the setuid bit is not yet stripped.

Affected products

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8b01fc86b9f425899f8a3a8fc1c47d73c2c20543 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157897.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158804.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214030 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8b01fc86b9f425899f8a3a8fc1c47d73c2c20543