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CVE-2015-7990
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2015-12-28T11:59:04.200 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:33:31.393

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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