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CVE-2015-3216

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Published: Jul 7, 2015Modified: May 6, 2026

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4.3
Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 2.9
Source: NVD

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 (2)

1 product
Enterprise Linux
1 product
Openssl
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 7.0
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 1.0.1e-25.el7

References (20)

Source: secalert@redhat.com
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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