CVE-2015-1339

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.3.6
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11-sp4

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
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

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