CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6213

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2016-12-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9 does not restrict how many mounts may exist in a mount namespace, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and deadlock) via MS_BIND mount system calls, as demonstrated by a loop that triggers exponential growth in the number of mounts.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.8.15)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References