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FKIE_CVE-2019-15794

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-04-24 00:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:21
Severity
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttps://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/eoan/commit/?id=270d16ae48a4dbf1c7e25e94cc3e38b4bea37635Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/eoan/commit/?id=ef81780548d20a786cc77ed4203fca146fd81ce3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4208-1Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4209-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/eoan/commit/?id=270d16ae48a4dbf1c7e25e94cc3e38b4bea37635Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/eoan/commit/?id=ef81780548d20a786cc77ed4203fca146fd81ce3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4208-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4209-1Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel 5.0
linux linux_kernel 5.3
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 19.10
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