Unscored severity · published Jul 7, 2015
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…
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CVSS
4.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.3% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
OP
Openssl · Openssl
1.0.1e-25.el7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3216
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3216
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00026.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00006.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.html
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