CVE-2015-3216

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 7, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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