vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-19319: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2020-1377)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 27, 2019
Added
Jun 4, 2020
Modified
May 21, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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