vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-16413: kernel: i_size_read() infinite loop leads to denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 19, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.4. The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which causes an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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