CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6198

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-08-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.5.4) • oracle linux 6 • oracle vm server 3.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References