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CVE-2016-6198
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-06T20:59:13.457 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:37.383

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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