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CVE-2016-6198

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.6%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 50% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-284
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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