Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2016-6198 First vendor Publication 2016-08-06
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-12-27

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 5.5
Base Score 5.5 Environmental Score 5.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 5.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6198

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Os 2579
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-15 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20161103_kernel_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-2574.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-11 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-2574.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2574.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-2584.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-23 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-20 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-1847.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1847.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1875.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-15 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1847.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-29 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-3596.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-01 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-3587.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-01 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0091.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91709
CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=54d...
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=940...
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.5.5
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-309054...
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546....
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1355654
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd509...
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9409e22acdfc9153f88d9b1ed2bd2a5b34d2...
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/11/8
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1847.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1875.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036273

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