CVE-2015-3216
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.
- EPSS
- 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-189, CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openssl:openssl
- redhat:enterprise_linux
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00006.html