Tracker / CVE-2016-6198
CVE-2016-6198
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.5.4 |
|---|---|
| oracle | linux |
| oracle | vm_server |
Analysis
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