CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7990

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2015-12-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-12-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References