CVE-2015-1339 Information

Description

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 Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.2