Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-19448 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel 5.0.21 and 5.3.11, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image, performing some operations, and then making a syncfs system call can lead to a use-after-free in try_merge_free_space in fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c because the pointer to a left data structure can be the same as the pointer to a right data structure.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/bobfuzzer/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-19448
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200103-0001/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html