Security Advisory

CVE-2019-15791

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-04-23 23:55:23
Last updated 2024-09-17 00:11:12
Assigner canonical
State PUBLISHED

Description

In shiftfs, a non-upstream patch to the Linux kernel included in the Ubuntu 5.0 and 5.3 kernel series, shiftfs_btrfs_ioctl_fd_replace() installs an fd referencing a file from the lower filesystem without taking an additional reference to that file. After the btrfs ioctl completes this fd is closed, which then puts a reference to that file, leading to a refcount underflow.