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High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-15792

CVE-2019-15792

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() calls fdget(oldfd), then without further checks passes the resulting file* into shiftfs_real_fdget(), which casts file->private_data, a void* that points to a filesystem-dependent type, to a "struct shiftfs_file_info *". As the private_data is not required to be a pointer, an attacker can use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Affected products

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  • Range: 5.0, 5.3
  • Ubuntu/Shiftfs in the Linux kernelv5
    Range: 5.3.0-11.12

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