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CVE-2015-6937

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The __rds_conn_create function in net/rds/connection.c in the Linux kernel through 4.2.3 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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.2.3

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=74e98eb085889b0d2d4908f59f6e00026063014f
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168447.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168539.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167358.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00017.html

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