CVE-2019-19037

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions through 5.3.12

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the ext4 empty dir function in the Linux kernel. This can occur because ext4 read dirblock(inode,0,DIRENT HTREE) can return zero. The problem allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions through 5.3.12, update to a version newer than 5.3.12 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about other specific fixes for this vulnerability.