UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15792

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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15792

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-15792, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4183-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4184-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15792