CVE-2015-3216

Race condition in a certain Red Hat patch to the PRNG lock implementation in the ssleay_rand_bytes function in OpenSSL, as distributed in openssl-1.0.1e-25.el7…

published July 7, 2015

CVSS
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EPSS
4%
Percentile
91.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Race condition in a certain Red Hat patch to the PRNG lock implementation in the ssleay_rand_bytes function in OpenSSL, as distributed in openssl-1.0.1e-25.el7 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by establishing many TLS sessions to a multithreaded server, leading to use of a negative value for a certain length field.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04272 · 91.0th percentile
Published
2015-07-07T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 JUL 10:00Z
    Race condition in a certain Red Hat patch to the PRNG lock implementation in the ssleay_rand_bytes function in OpenSSL, as distributed in openssl-1.0.1e-25.el7…
    cvelistv5