CVE-2015-7553

A race-condition flaw was discovered in the kernel's netlink module creation, which can trigger a kernel panic in netlink_release->module_put for local users creating netlink sockets. The flaw is specific to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and does not affect upstream kernels. The nfnetlink_log module must be loaded before the flaw can occur.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and may be addressed in a future update.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.