CVE-2015-7553

Severity
4.7MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 89.32%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedSep 14
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Race condition in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, when the nfnetlink_log module is loaded, allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by creating netlink sockets.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 7.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c35m-qv8m-73h9: Race condition in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, when the nfnetlink_log module is loaded, allows lo↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2015-7553: Race condition in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2, when the nfnetlink_log module is loaded, allows lo↗2017-09-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: nfnetlink race in NETLINK_NFLOG socket creation↗2015-12-15
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Debian
CVE-2015-7553: linux - Race condition in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt and Red Ha...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7553 kernel: nfnetlink race in NETLINK_NFLOG socket creation↗2015-12-07
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