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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 Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and...

MediumCVSS 4.3 EPSS 4.3%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise linux = 7.0 No fix listed
OpenSSL = 1.0.1e-25.el7 No fix listed

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