CVE-2016-6197
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 6, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 11, 2016
Description
fs/overlayfs/dir.c in the OverlayFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.6 does not properly verify the upper dentry before proceeding with unlink and rename system-call processing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a rename system call that specifies a self-hardlink.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- USN-3070-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1355650
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=11f3710417d026ea2f4fcf362d866342c5274185
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- RHSA-2016:1847vendor-advisory
- 91709vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:1875vendor-advisory
- USN-3070-3vendor-advisory
- 1036273vdb-entry
- USN-3070-2vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/11f3710417d026ea2f4fcf362d866342c5274185
- [oss-security] 20160711 Re: cvs request: local DoS using rename syscall on overlayfs on top of xfs to crash the kernel - Linux kernelmailing-list
- USN-3070-4vendor-advisory
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