CVE-2018-16597 (GCVE-0-2018-16597)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-21 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.8. Incorrect access checking in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem.
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