CVE

Id
93018  
CVE No.
CVE-2016-6198  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20160711)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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