CVE-2019-10140: NULL Pointer Dereference

A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel's, versions up to 3.10, implementation of overlayfs. An attacker with local access can create a denial of service situation via NULL pointer dereference in ovlposixaclcreate function in fs/overlayfs/dir.c. This can allow attackers with ability to create...

CVE-2016-6197: Improper Input Validation

fs/overlayfs/dir.c in the OverlayFS filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.6 does not properly verify the upper dentry before proceeding with unlink and rename system-call processing, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via a rename system call that...