CVE-2015-3216

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux
PublishedJul 7, 2015
First seenJul 7, 2015

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux7.0—
openssl openssl1.0.1e-25.el7—

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