CVE-2016-6198

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6198
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6198.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6198
Downstream
Published
2016-08-06T20:59:13.457Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:18:15.169115Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
Fixed
54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7
Fixed
9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2d3ca
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.4"
        }
    ]
}
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7
Fixed
9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2d3ca

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.5.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6198.json"