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CentOS Linux: CVE-2019-19319: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2019-19319: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/27/2019
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
05/25/2023

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(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-rt

References

  • DSA-4698
  • CVE-2019-19319

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