CVE-2015-7990

medium
Published 2015-12-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
58%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.2.6-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.2.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.2.6-1
debian debiansidfixed4.2.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.2.6-1
linux linux-kernelaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.