CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3216

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2015-07-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-07-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189, CWE-362

Description

Race condition in a certain Red Hat patch to the PRNG lock implementation in the ssleay_rand_bytes function in OpenSSL, as distributed in openssl-1.0.1e-25.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by establishing many TLS sessions to a multithreaded server, leading to use of a negative value for a certain length field.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • openssl openssl 1.0.1e-25.el7

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References