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Bug 1314331 - (CVE-2015-1339) CVE-2015-1339 kernel: Memory exhaustion via CUSE driver
CVE-2015-1339 kernel: Memory exhaustion via CUSE driver
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20160302,reported=2...
: Security
Depends On: 1314332
Blocks: 1314333
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Reported: 2016-03-03 07:24 EST by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2016-04-05 04:38 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: kernel 4.4
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Last Closed: 2016-04-05 04:38:48 EDT
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-03 07:24:48 EST 
Kernel memory leak in the CUSE driver using stress-ng was found. It is possible for privileged attacker to cause a local DoS via memory exhaustion by repeatedly opening /dev/cuse for reading.

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/linus/2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c

References:

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

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/495
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-03 07:25:35 EST 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1314332]
Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2016-04-05 04:38:48 EDT 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and MRG-2 as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed.
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