CVE-2016-1575
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.9%
from disclosure to weapon204 days
Published on NVDMay 2
1st PoC+204d
exploitation probability
0.9%top 43% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 does not properly maintain POSIX ACL xattr data, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a group-writable setgid directory.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1
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References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e9f57ebcba563e0cd532926cab83c92bb4d79360http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-1575.htmlhttps://launchpad.net/bugs/1534961http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2016/UserNamespaceOverlayfsXattrSetgidPrivilegeEscalation/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/24/7http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/18/1