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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-08-06T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:22:20.799Z

Reserved: 2016-07-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6198

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-08-06T20:59:13.457

Modified: 2019-12-27T16:08:47.953

Link: CVE-2016-6198

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-6198 - Bugzilla