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LIN6-10687 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-7990

Created: Dec 29, 2015    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 21, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0.0.26
Fix Version: 6.0.0.28
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-7990

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