cve/2019/CVE-2019-10140.md

### [CVE-2019-10140](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-10140)
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### Description

A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel's, versions up to 3.10, implementation of overlayfs. An attacker with local access can create a denial of service situation via NULL pointer dereference in ovl_posix_acl_create function in fs/overlayfs/dir.c. This can allow attackers with ability to create directories on overlayfs to crash the kernel creating a denial of service (DOS).

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon