{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2019-08-15T03:50:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: overlayfs: NULL pointer dereference in ovl_posix_acl_create function in fs/overlayfs/dir.c",
    "id" : "1677778",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677778"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "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).", "A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel's 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)." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Vasily Averin (Virtuozzo) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2043",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1062.rt56.1022.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2019-08-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2019:2029",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-1062.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10140\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10140" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2019-10140",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Some systems may wish to use device-mapper as an alternative to overlayfs.  This does not remove the flaw if overlayfs module is still in use.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}