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Tracker / CVE-2016-1576

CVE-2016-1576

High 7.8

The overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly restrict the mount namespace, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting an overlayfs filesystem on top of a FUSE filesystem, and then executing a crafted setuid program.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_core
canonical ubuntu_linux
canonical ubuntu_touch
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.5.2

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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