CVE-2016-6198
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 cau…
Published: 2016-08-06 · CVSS: Unscored
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7