CVE-2016-6198

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p47

Published

Aug 6, 2016 (Aug 6, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: linux oracle
Products: linux kernel, linux, vm server
Weakness: CWE-284
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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