Race condition vulnerability in Red Hat patch to PRNG lock implementation in OpenSSL
CVE-2015-3216 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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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