CVE-2015-3339

A race condition flaw was found between the chown and execve system calls. When changing the owner of a setuid user binary to root, the race condition could momentarily make the binary setuid root. A local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7 and MRG-2. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel updates. Future Linux kernel updates for other releases may address this issue.

For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.