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[Bug 1502032] Re: CVE-2015-7613

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From: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 15:51:01 -0000
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** Description changed:

- Description needed
+ While working on KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN), a data race detector for
+ kernels, Dmitry Vyukov found a data race that can trick the kernel into
+ using unitialized memory. - This can at least give access to arbitrary
+ SysV shared memory and Dmitry developed a proof of concept exploit for
+ this. (On many systems, this can be used to escalate privileges). -
+ While we didn't investigate this deeply, it is almost certain that this
+ vulnerability can be used to gain arbitrary code execution in the
+ kernel. Exercise left to the reader.

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Title:
  CVE-2015-7613

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Bug description:
  While working on KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN), a data race detector
  for kernels, Dmitry Vyukov found a data race that can trick the kernel
  into using unitialized memory. - This can at least give access to
  arbitrary SysV shared memory and Dmitry developed a proof of concept
  exploit for this. (On many systems, this can be used to escalate
  privileges). - While we didn't investigate this deeply, it is almost
  certain that this vulnerability can be used to gain arbitrary code
  execution in the kernel. Exercise left to the reader.

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References

[Bug 1502032] [NEW] CVE-2015-7613
From: John Johansen, 2015-10-02