Bug 969356 – VUL-0: CVE-2015-1339: kernel: Memory exhaustion via CUSE driver

Bug 969356 - (CVE-2015-1339) VUL-0: CVE-2015-1339: kernel: Memory exhaustion via CUSE driver

(CVE-2015-1339)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2015-1339: kernel: Memory exhaustion via CUSE driver

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
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Assigned To:	Security Team bot
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/162487/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv2:RedHat:CVE-2015-1339:4.0:(AV:L...
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Reported:	2016-03-03 13:50 UTC by Alexander Bergmann
Modified:	2016-10-26 16:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Alexander Bergmann 2016-03-03 13:50:50 UTC

rh#1314331

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

CVE-2015-1339 was assigned to this issue.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314331
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-1339
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/495
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1339.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1339

Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-03-03 23:01:41 UTC

bugbot adjusting priority

Comment 2 Borislav Petkov 2016-03-04 15:21:07 UTC

oS42.1: backported.
12SP2: patch is queued for stable, will land in SP2 eventually.

Bouncing back.

Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-04-12 10:16:37 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2016:1008-1: An update that solves 15 vulnerabilities and has 26 fixes is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 814440,884701,949936,951440,951542,951626,951638,953527,954018,954404,954405,954876,958439,958463,958504,959709,960561,960563,960710,961263,961500,961509,962257,962866,962977,963746,963765,963767,963931,965125,966137,966179,966259,966437,966684,966693,968018,969356,969582,970845,971125
CVE References: CVE-2015-1339,CVE-2015-7799,CVE-2015-7872,CVE-2015-7884,CVE-2015-8104,CVE-2015-8709,CVE-2015-8767,CVE-2015-8785,CVE-2015-8787,CVE-2015-8812,CVE-2016-0723,CVE-2016-2069,CVE-2016-2184,CVE-2016-2383,CVE-2016-2384
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 42.1 (src):    kernel-debug-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-default-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-docs-4.1.20-11.3, kernel-ec2-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-obs-build-4.1.20-11.2, kernel-obs-qa-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-obs-qa-xen-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-pae-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-pv-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-source-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-syms-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-vanilla-4.1.20-11.1, kernel-xen-4.1.20-11.1

Comment 5 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-06-30 18:12:30 UTC

SUSE-SU-2016:1707-1: An update that solves 17 vulnerabilities and has 25 fixes is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 898592,940413,946122,949752,956852,957988,957990,959381,960458,961512,963998,965319,965860,965923,967863,968010,968018,968141,968566,968670,968687,969356,970504,970892,970909,970911,970948,970956,970958,970970,971124,971125,971360,971433,971729,972363,973237,973378,973556,973570,975772,975945
CVE References: CVE-2015-1339,CVE-2015-7566,CVE-2015-8551,CVE-2015-8552,CVE-2015-8816,CVE-2016-2143,CVE-2016-2184,CVE-2016-2185,CVE-2016-2186,CVE-2016-2188,CVE-2016-2782,CVE-2016-2847,CVE-2016-3137,CVE-2016-3138,CVE-2016-3139,CVE-2016-3140,CVE-2016-3156
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11-SP4 (src):    kernel-rt-3.0.101.rt130-54.1, kernel-rt_trace-3.0.101.rt130-54.1, kernel-source-rt-3.0.101.rt130-54.1, kernel-syms-rt-3.0.101.rt130-54.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (src):    kernel-rt-3.0.101.rt130-54.1, kernel-rt_debug-3.0.101.rt130-54.1, kernel-rt_trace-3.0.101.rt130-54.1

Comment 6 Marcus Meissner 2016-08-03 15:40:28 UTC

relreased

Comment 7 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-10-26 16:20:09 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2016:2649-1: An update that solves 49 vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1004418,758540,816446,861093,917648,928130,935757,939826,942367,944296,945825,946117,946309,948562,949744,949936,951440,952384,953527,954404,955354,955654,956708,956709,958463,958886,958951,959190,959399,961500,961509,961512,963765,963767,964201,966437,966460,966662,966693,967972,967973,967974,967975,968010,968011,968012,968013,968670,969356,970504,970892,970909,970911,970948,970956,970958,970970,971124,971125,971126,971360,972510,973570,975945,977847,978822
CVE References: CVE-2013-7446,CVE-2015-0272,CVE-2015-1339,CVE-2015-3339,CVE-2015-5307,CVE-2015-6252,CVE-2015-6937,CVE-2015-7509,CVE-2015-7515,CVE-2015-7550,CVE-2015-7566,CVE-2015-7799,CVE-2015-7872,CVE-2015-7990,CVE-2015-8104,CVE-2015-8215,CVE-2015-8539,CVE-2015-8543,CVE-2015-8569,CVE-2015-8575,CVE-2015-8767,CVE-2015-8785,CVE-2015-8812,CVE-2015-8816,CVE-2016-0723,CVE-2016-2069,CVE-2016-2143,CVE-2016-2184,CVE-2016-2185,CVE-2016-2186,CVE-2016-2188,CVE-2016-2384,CVE-2016-2543,CVE-2016-2544,CVE-2016-2545,CVE-2016-2546,CVE-2016-2547,CVE-2016-2548,CVE-2016-2549,CVE-2016-2782,CVE-2016-2847,CVE-2016-3134,CVE-2016-3137,CVE-2016-3138,CVE-2016-3139,CVE-2016-3140,CVE-2016-3156,CVE-2016-4486,CVE-2016-5195
Sources used:
openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (src):    kernel-debug-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-default-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-desktop-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-docs-3.0.101-105.2, kernel-ec2-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-pae-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-source-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-syms-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-trace-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-vanilla-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-vmi-3.0.101-105.1, kernel-xen-3.0.101-105.1, preload-1.2-6.83.1