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CVE-2015-7553 (GCVE-0-2015-7553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-14 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-12-06 00:00
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