CVE-2015-7553: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Mrg: version 2.0 only
• Red Hat Kernel-Rt: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.