CVE-2019-16413

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.4. The 9p filesystem did not protect i_size_write() properly, which causes an i_size_read() infinite loop and denial of service on SMP systems.

References

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K43239141?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0001/

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10753365/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5e3cc1ee1405a7eb3487ed24f786dec01b4cbe1f

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.0.4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3