suse · CVE-2016-6198

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:44:25 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:56:36 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6198 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (kernel-3.10.0-514.el7, kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.el7, …), 302 product×package rows across 72 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, … (72 product lines)): Known Not Affected 290, Fixed 12.

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.

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