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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 21, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-16597

CVE-2018-16597

Description

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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