Use-after-free in Linux kernel - CVE-2019-19767
Published: December 12, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30553
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19767
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The Linux kernel before 5.4.2 mishandles ext4_expand_extra_isize, as demonstrated by use-after-free errors in __ext4_expand_extra_isize and ext4_xattr_set_entry, related to fs/ext4/inode.c and fs/ext4/super.c, aka CID-4ea99936a163.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-19767
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205609
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205707
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.2
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4ea99936a1630f51fc3a2d61a58ec4a1c4b7d55a
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ea99936a1630f51fc3a2d61a58ec4a1c4b7d55a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4258-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4284-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4287-2/