CVE-2019-10140

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).

• CWE-476
• CWE-476

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10140Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10140Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0002/

Published

Aug 15, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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