CVE
- Id
- 93017
- CVE No.
- CVE-2016-6197
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20160711)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments