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CVE-2015-7553

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0
• RedHat Kernel-Rt: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288934
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288934

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