UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7990
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
84 explicit affected versions
34 explicit affected versions
19 explicit affected versions
6 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/5
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/530
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7990
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2886-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2886-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2887-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2887-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2888-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2889-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2889-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-3
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7990