Description
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.
Published: 2015-07-07
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-3279 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.
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Openssl Openssl
Redhat Enterprise Linux Jboss Core Services
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:32.004Z

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-3216

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-07-07T10:59:00.087

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-3216

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-05-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3216 - Bugzilla

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