Bug 1227574 (CVE-2015-3216) - CVE-2015-3216 openssl: Crash in ssleay_rand_bytes due to locking regression
Summary: CVE-2015-3216 openssl: Crash in ssleay_rand_bytes due to locking regression
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-3216
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Whiteboard:
: 1226204 1227734 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1226204 1226209 1227734 1228618 1228619 1231051 1258884
Blocks: 717789 1227577 1395463
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-03 04:11 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:14 UTC (History)
28 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
A regression was found in the ssleay_rand_bytes() function in the versions of OpenSSL shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This regression could cause a multi-threaded application to crash.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-16 01:33:03 UTC
Embargoed:


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1115 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: openssl security update 2015-06-16 00:48:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2957 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP 2.4.23 Release 2016-12-16 03:11:19 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-03 04:11:16 UTC
A regression was found in the openssl packages shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, leading to a denial-of-service when openssl is used with multi-threaded applications. 

More details about this issue is available at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226204

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-04 02:26:10 UTC
(In reply to Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala from comment #0)
 
> More details about this issue is available at:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226204

Note: Since the above bug is closed, more information about this flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225994

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-12 05:45:28 UTC
Created openssl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1231051]

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2015-06-15 13:07:23 UTC
*** Bug 1227734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2015-06-15 13:15:17 UTC
*** Bug 1226204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-15 20:49:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1115 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1115.html

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-16 01:33:03 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of OpenSSL package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-15 22:14:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2016:2957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html


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