CVE-2015-7990

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Publication date:

28/12/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.80

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Complete