CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-19037

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-11-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

ext4_empty_dir in fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.12 allows a NULL pointer dereference because ext4_read_dirblock(inode,0,DIRENT_HTREE) can be zero.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 5.3.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References