UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7990

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7990

    Published: 28 Dec 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7990
    Aliases:
    USN-2886-1
    USN-2886-2
    USN-2887-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7990, https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/16/530, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/5, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2886-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2886-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2889-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2889-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2887-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2887-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2888-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2890-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7990

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-77.121

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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