Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3339

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-05-27 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 05:47:57

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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