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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2d3ca

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1355654

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036273

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91709

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.5

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1875.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1847.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2d3ca

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3