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CVE-2015-3216

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 4.30%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2015-07-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. It affects Linux, OpenSSL. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2015-3216
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
4.30%
Linux OpenSSL

Original NVD 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.