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LIN8-4429 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2016-6198

Created: Aug 14, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 24, 2016
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.9
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Kernel

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-6198

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