cve/2015/CVE-2015-7990.md

### [CVE-2015-7990](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7990)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3

#### Github
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