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CVE-2015-3216 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00023.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00024.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00026.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00004.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00006.html	CVE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.html	CVE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225994	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75219	CVE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032587	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00023.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00024.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00026.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00004.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00006.html	[email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.html	[email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225994	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75219	[email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032587	[email protected]

see all 20 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-189	Numeric Errors	[email protected]
CWE-362	Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
redhat enterprise linux	7.0
CPE cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
openssl openssl	1.0.1e-25.el7
CPE cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1e-25.el7:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 6, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 5, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 28, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 3, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 28, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 9, 2015	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Jul 9, 2015	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jul 9, 2015	Initial Analysis	[email protected]