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CVE-2016-6198

CVSS v3.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 6
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-284
Improper Access Control
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2016-08-06 20:59:13
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2019-12-27 16:08:47
(4 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Oracle

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.5.4 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.5.4

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Oracle Linux 6 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Oracle Vm Server 3.4 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:vm_server:3.4