CVE-2019-10140

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Aug 15, 2019
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Mar 27, 2019

Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel's, versions up to 3.10, implementation of overlayfs. An attacker with local access can create a denial of service situation via NULL pointer dereference in ovl_posix_acl_create function in fs/overlayfs/dir.c. This can allow attackers with ability to create directories on overlayfs to crash the kernel creating a denial of service (DOS).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected Products

Product	Versions
kernel:OpenSource	up to kernel-3.10Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10140
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/

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