Bug 1355654 (CVE-2016-6198)
Summary: | CVE-2016-6198 kernel: vfs: missing detection of hardlinks in vfs_rename() on overlayfs | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Martin Prpič <mprpic> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kstutsma, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, williams, wmealing |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
Doc Text: |
A flaw was found that the vfs_rename() function did not detect hard links on overlayfs. A local, unprivileged user could use the rename syscall on overlayfs on top of xfs to crash the system.
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Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2021-10-21 00:54:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1258556, 1341795, 1355655 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1355693 |
Description
Martin Prpič
2016-07-12 07:30:51 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1355655] Acknowledgments: Name: CAI Qian (Red Hat) Statement: This issue is not present in the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 5 and 6. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html |