Vulnerability CVE-2015-1339
Published: 2016-04-27

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise debuginfo 
Novell -> Suse linux enterprise real time extension 
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 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
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