Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6197
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
fs/overlayfs/dir.c in the OverlayFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.6 does not properly verify the upper dentry before proceeding with unlink and rename system-call processing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a rename system call that specifies a self-hardlink.
Published Date
August 6, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory