CVE-2016-6198
Published Aug 6, 2016
Last updated 5 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.9
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-284
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