CVE-2019-5094

medium

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the quota file functionality of E2fsprogs 1.45.3. A specially crafted ext4 partition can cause an out-of-bounds write on the heap, resulting in code execution. An attacker can corrupt a partition to trigger this vulnerability.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4535

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4142-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4142-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200115-0002/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-05

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/58

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DOBCYQKCTTWXBLMUPJ5TX3FY7JNCOKY/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2AKETJ6BREDUHRWQTV35SPGG5C6H7KSI/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00029.html

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0887

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-24

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00074