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  

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