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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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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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 : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

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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