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Privilege escalation vulnerability in kernel while calling fork(2) and close(2) system calls

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:25185Date: (C)2015-06-23   (M)2023-12-07
Class: VULNERABILITYFamily: unix




The host is installed with kernel on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle fork(2) and close(2) system calls with an 'int80' entry. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to escalate the privileges on the system.

Platform:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product:
kernel
Reference:
CVE-2015-2830
CVE    1
CVE-2015-2830
CPE    4
cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:3.19.1
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