CVE-2015-7990

MEDIUM 5.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.35 % · percentile 28 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

Description

Race condition in the rds_sendmsg function in net/rds/sendmsg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by using a socket that was not properly bound. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-6937.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD