CVE-2019-5094 (GCVE-0-2019-5094)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-09-24 21:21
Modified
2025-05-30 19:48
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a E2fsprogs Version: E2fsprogs 1.43.3 - 1.45.3
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