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

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2019-16413: kernel: i_size_read() infinite loop leads to denial of service
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2019-09-19T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2019, 16413, kernel, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 5

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Severity

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

References

NVD-CVE-2019-16413

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