CVE-2016-2550

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 42.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-04-27 17:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-02-23

Assigning CNA

debian

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-399
• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

66f62b4faa62d36e7abbc4c1c82ff7986bd06315952dba82e2d4a3657106c78c

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311517x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2949-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2949-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160223 CVE Request: Linux: unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct socketshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/23/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.debian.orgDSA-3503http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2947-3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-3vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2947-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2947-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2947-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2946-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2946-2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2948-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2946-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2946-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-2948-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2948-2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6x_refsource_CONFIRM