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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2019-10140
HistoryAug 15, 2019 - 5:15 p.m.

Null pointer dereference

2019-08-1517:15:00
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5.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel’s, versions up to 3.10, implementation of overlayfs. An attacker with local access can create a denial of service situation via NULL pointer dereference in ovl_posix_acl_create function in fs/overlayfs/dir.c. This can allow attackers with ability to create directories on overlayfs to crash the kernel creating a denial of service (DOS).

CPENameOperatorVersion
linux_kernelle3.10
enterprise_linuxeq7.0

5.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%