CVE-2016-6198
Published
CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
4.9
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT
Description
The filesystem layer in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 proceeds with post-rename operations after an OverlayFS file is renamed to a self-hardlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a rename system call, related to fs/namei.c and fs/open.c.
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