Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9846046
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed11 Jul 2016

Introduced: 11 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-6198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream realtime-kernel package and not the realtime-kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

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.