CVE-2019-5188

medium

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the directory rehashing functionality of E2fsprogs e2fsck 1.45.4. A specially crafted ext4 directory can cause an out-of-bounds write on the stack, resulting in code execution. An attacker can corrupt a partition to trigger this vulnerability.

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0973

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2AKETJ6BREDUHRWQTV35SPGG5C6H7KSI/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4249-1/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6DOBCYQKCTTWXBLMUPJ5TX3FY7JNCOKY/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00004.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00030.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00021.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220506-0001/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2020-01-08

Updated: 2022-05-12

Type: CWE-787

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 3.4

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 0.8

Severity: MEDIUM