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CVE-2019-15792

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 EPSS 1.10%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-04-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2019-15792
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
1.10%
Linux Ubuntu

Original NVD Description

In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, shiftfs_btrfs_ioctl_fd_replace() calls fdget(oldfd), then without further checks passes the resulting file* into shiftfs_real_fdget(), which casts file->private_data, a void* that points to a filesystem-dependent type, to a "struct shiftfs_file_info *". As the private_data is not required to be a pointer, an attacker can use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.