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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. #### Notes Author| Note ---|--- [PHLin](<https://launchpad.net/~PHLin>) | patch 9409e22 got reverted in 8d3e2936 when 51f7e52 is applied


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 14.04 linux any
ubuntu upstream linux 4.6
ubuntu 15.10 linux 4.2.0-41.48
ubuntu 16.04 linux 4.4.0-28.47
ubuntu upstream linux-armadaxp 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-aws 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-aws-hwe 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-azure 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-azure-edge 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-euclid 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-flo 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-gcp 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-gcp-edge 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-gke 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-goldfish 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-grouper 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-hwe 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-hwe-edge 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-kvm 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-omap 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-shared 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-linaro-vexpress 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-quantal 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-raring 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-saucy 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-trusty 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-utopic 4.6
ubuntu 14.04 linux-lts-vivid any
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-vivid 4.6
ubuntu 14.04 linux-lts-wily 4.2.0-41.48~14.04.1
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-wily 4.6
ubuntu 14.04 linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-28.47~14.04.1
ubuntu upstream linux-lts-xenial 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-maguro 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-mako 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-manta 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-oem 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-oracle 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-qcm-msm 4.6
ubuntu upstream linux-raspi2 4.6
ubuntu 15.10 linux-raspi2 4.2.0-1033.43
ubuntu 16.04 linux-raspi2 4.4.0-1016.22
ubuntu upstream linux-snapdragon 4.6
ubuntu 16.04 linux-snapdragon 4.4.0-1019.22
ubuntu upstream linux-ti-omap4 4.6

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