CVE-2015-3196 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2015-3196?

CVE-2015-3196 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ssl/s3_clnt.c in OpenSSL 1.0.0 before 1.0.0t, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1p, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2d, when used for a multi-threaded client, writes the PSK identity hint to an incorrect data structure, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (race condition and double free) via a crafted ServerKeyExchange message.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3196?

It affects 13 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Hp Icewall Sso, Hp Icewall Sso Agent Option, Openssl Openssl and 7 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-3196?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-3196 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3196 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3196, GHSA-wj5w-hq6m-54g7, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3196.