CVE-2019-19037

medium

Description

ext4_empty_dir in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.12 allows a NULL pointer dereference because ext4_read_dirblock(inode,0,DIRENT_HTREE) can be zero.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191205-0001/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-21

Updated: 2019-12-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H