CVE-2016-6198 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.04% · 12.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.04%
12.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTSlinux3.13.0-202.253, 3.13.0-16.36, 3.13.0-15.35
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-wily0, 4.2.0-35.40~14.04.1, 4.2.0-34.39~14.04.1
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.155.15.0-1088.97~20.04.1.1, 0, 5.15.0-1019.24~20.04.1.1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-xenial4.4.0-18.34~14.04.1, 4.4.0-15.31~14.04.1, 4.4.0-14.30~14.04.2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv5.15.0-1020.23, 5.15.0-1019.22, 5.15.0-1018.21
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-raspi24.4.0-1010.12, 4.4.0-1009.10, 4.4.0-1004.5
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-gkeop-5.155.15.0-1011.15~20.04.2, 5.15.0-1008.12~20.04.1, 5.15.0-1007.10~20.04.1
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.4.0-1092.96, 5.4.0-1079.83, 5.4.0-1078.82
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-29.29~24.04.1, 6.11.0-17.17~24.04.2, 6.11.0-19.19~24.04.1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtime5.15.0-1073.75, 0
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-gke5.4.0-1083.89, 0, 5.4.0-1033.35
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde0, 5.4.0-1100.106+cvm1.1, 5.4.0-1098.104+cvm1.1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.116.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1, 6.11.0-1013.14~24.04.1, 6.11.0-1012.13~24.04.1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux4.4.0-9.24, 4.4.0-24.43, 4.4.0-22.40
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-raspi25.4.0-1004.4, 5.3.0-1017.19, 5.3.0-1015.17
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-snapdragon4.4.0-1012.12, 4.4.0-1015.18, 4.4.0-1013.15
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtime5.15.0-1032.35, 0
Ubuntu:20.04:LTSlinux-riscv0, 5.4.0-24.28, 5.4.0-28.32
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1008.8~24.04.1, 6.11.0-1013.13~24.04.1, 6.11.0-1014.14~24.04.1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtime6.8.0-2019.20, 0

…and 1 more

Timeline

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