Medium severity5.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 28, 2015· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-7990
CVE-2015-7990
Description
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
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
37- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.3nvdVendor Advisory
- git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/nvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00007.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00009.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00017.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00018.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00019.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00020.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00021.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00022.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00034.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00039.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3396nvd
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/5nvd
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/77340nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1034453nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2887-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2889-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3nvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvd
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8c7188b23474cca017b3ef354c4a58456f68303anvd
- lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/530nvd
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