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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1339
Reference (s):
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c
- 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