CVE-2015-1339

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-04-27 17:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-01 02:59:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c

openSUSE-SU-2016:1008

SUSE-SU-2016:1707

Third Party Advisory

[oss-security] 20160302 CVE-2015-1339: Linux Kernel: memory exhaustion via CUSE driver

Patch

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969356

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314331

Issue Tracking

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1339

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