Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6198

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-08-06 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 01:22:20

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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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