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.
References
Information
Published : 2016-08-06 13:59
Updated : 2019-12-27 08:08
NVD link : CVE-2016-6198
Mitre link : CVE-2016-6198
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CWE
CWE-284
Improper Access Control
Products Affected
oracle
- vm_server
- linux
linux
- linux_kernel