CVE-2019-19319: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel before 5.2, a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in fs/ext4/xattr.c when a large old_size value is used in a memset call, aka CID-345c0dbf3a30.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 5.0.21 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2019-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.