GSD-2016-6198

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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-2016-6198
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