CVE-2015-3339

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Linux kernel: through 3.19.5

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
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.19.6

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