Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2015· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-3216
CVE-2015-3216
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 products
2- cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.1e-25.el7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
10- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00023.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00024.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00026.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00004.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00006.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.htmlnvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75219nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1032587nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
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