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Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-19318
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-28

In the Linux kernel 5.3.11, mounting a crafted btrfs image twice can cause an rwsem_down_write_slowpath use-after-free because (in rwsem_can_spin_on_owner in kernel/locking/rwsem.c) rwsem_owner_flags returns an already freed pointer,

CVE-2019-19319
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-27

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, 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.

CVE-2019-18247
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-27

An attacker may use a specially crafted message to force Relion 650 series (versions 1.3.0.5 and prior) or Relion 670 series (versions 1.2.3.18, 2.0.0.11, 2.1.0.1 and prior) to reboot, which could cause a denial of service.

CVE-2019-18253
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-27

An attacker could use specially crafted paths in a specific request to read or delete files from Relion 670 Series (versions 1p1r26, 1.2.3.17, 2.0.0.10, RES670 2.0.0.4, 2.1.0.1, and prior) outside the intended directory.

CVE-2019-18660
PUBLISHED: 2019-11-27

The Linux kernel through 5.3.13 on powerpc allows Information Exposure because the Spectre-RSB mitigation is not in place for all applicable CPUs, aka CID-39e72bf96f58. This is related to arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c.

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