CVE-2015-1339
medium
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.2
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.4.2-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.4.2-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.4.2-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.4.2-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.4.2-1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1339.html
- 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
CWEs
CWE-399
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