Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6198
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
August 6, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory