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CVE-2019-19816 json

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image and performing some operations can cause slab-out-of-bounds write acc…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-9414

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image and performing some operations can cause slab-out-of-bounds write access in __btrfs_map_block in fs/btrfs/volumes.c, because a value of 1 for the number of data stripes is mishandled.

Patch / fix

  • linux linux_kernel 4.4.247, 4.9.247, 4.14.210, 4.19.137, 5.2
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.2.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19816

  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-201.233
  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-109.110
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1121.135
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1077.81
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-1080.90~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.15.0-112.113~16.04.1
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 5.3.0-26.28~18.04.1
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1087.96

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19816

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19816 updated cvss 7.8

kernel: out-of-bounds write in __btrfs_map_block in fs/btrfs/volumes.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/bobfuzzer/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-19816 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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