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CVE-2016-6198

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.

POC

Reference

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

Github

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