CVE-2019-15538

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

An issue was discovered in xfs_setattr_nonsize in fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c in the Linux kernel through 5.2.9. XFS partially wedges when a chgrp fails on account of being out of disk quota. xfs_setattr_nonsize is failing to unlock the ILOCK after the xfs_qm_vop_chown_reserve call fails. This is primarily a local DoS attack vector, but it might result as well in remote DoS if the XFS filesystem is exported for instance via NFS.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-15538

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15538.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.2.17-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.2.17-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.2.17-1
debian debiansidfixed5.2.17-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.2.17-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.