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CVE-2019-15794highCWE-672

Reference counting error in overlayfs/shiftfs error path when used in conjuction with aufs

41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 7.1epss 1.2%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDApr 23
1st PoCNov 20
exploitation probability
1.2%top 36% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Overlayfs in the Linux kernel and shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, both replace vma->vm_file in their mmap handlers. On error the original value is not restored, and the reference is put for the file to which vm_file points. On upstream kernels this is not an issue, as no callers dereference vm_file following after call_mmap() returns an error. However, the aufs patchs change mmap_region() to replace the fput() using a local variable with vma_fput(), which will fput() vm_file, leading to a refcount underflow.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Ubuntu · Linux kernel
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