CVE-2019-19319
Moderate
CVE-2019-19319
In the Linux kernel before 5.2, a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in fs/ext4/xattr.c when a large old_size value is used in a memset call, aka CID-345c0dbf3a30.
Exploit probability
0.7%
Published
November 27, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-19319
View original source
In the Linux kernel before 5.2, a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in fs/ext4/xattr.c when a large old_size value is used in a memset call, aka CID-345c0dbf3a30.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00021.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158021
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=345c0dbf3a30
- https://github.com/bobfuzzer/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-19319
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4391-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4698