Tracker / CVE-2016-6197
CVE-2016-6197
Medium 5.5
fs/overlayfs/dir.c in the OverlayFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.6 does not properly verify the upper dentry before proceeding with unlink and rename system-call processing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a rename system call that specifies a self-hardlink.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.5.7 |
|---|---|
| oracle | linux |
| oracle | vm_server |
Analysis
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