NVD
- Id
- 21069
- Name
- CVE-2016-6198
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.9
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.9
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.9
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Modified Date
- 2016-11-28
- Seq
- 2016-6198