CVE-2016-6197

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6197.json"

unresolved_ranges

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            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.5.7"
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                "introduced": "0"
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