CVSS 3.0
5.8 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:HCVE-2015-7990
Medium (5.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8c7188b23474cca017b3ef354c4a58456f68303a
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html