CVE-2015-7990 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7990?

CVE-2015-7990 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Dec 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7990?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7990?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2015-7990 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7990 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7990, GHSA-ggf3-232m-5283, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7990.