CVE-2013-1819 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1819?

CVE-2013-1819 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The _xfs_buf_find function in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 does not validate block numbers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the ability to mount an XFS filesystem containing a metadata inode with an invalid extent map.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1819?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1819?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2013-1819 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1819 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1819, GHSA-5fpr-g7qq-496f.