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CVE-2019-19039

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-532

Description

__btrfs_free_extent in fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.3.12 calls btrfs_print_leaf in a certain ENOENT case, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information about register values via the dmesg program. NOTE: The BTRFS development team disputes this issues as not being a vulnerability because “1) The kernel provide facilities to restrict access to dmesg - dmesg_restrict=1 sysctl option. So it's really up to the system administrator to judge whether dmesg access shall be disallowed or not. 2) WARN/WARN_ON are widely used macros in the linux kernel. If this CVE is considered valid this would mean there are literally thousands CVE lurking in the kernel - something which clearly is not the case.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Linux kernel: through 5.3.12

References

• https://github.com/bobfuzzer/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-19039
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4414-1/
• https://github.com/bobfuzzer/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-19039
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00015.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4414-1/

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