Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006451
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-1339  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.4.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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.

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