| Name | CVE-2015-7990 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-360-1, DSA-3396-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.106-3 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.99-1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 6.10.6-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.10.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.68-1+deb7u6 | DSA-3396-1 | ||
| linux | source | jessie | 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 | DSA-3396-1 | ||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 4.2.6-1 | |||
| linux-2.6 | source | squeeze | 2.6.32-48squeeze17 | DLA-360-1 | ||
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) |
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