CVE-2015-1339

Memory leak in the cuse_channel_release function in fs/fuse/cuse.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by opening /dev/cuse many times.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.2 Medium

Status

Modified - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2016-04-27

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)
• Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo (Novell)
• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension (Novell)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/13
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969356
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314331
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1339