{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2018-09-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: overlayfs file truncation without permissions",
    "id" : "1632443",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632443"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-862",
  "details" : [ "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.", "An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel where an incorrect access check in overlayfs mounts could be used by local attackers to modify or truncate files in the underlying filesystem." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2574",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-514.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16597\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16597" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-16597",
  "csaw" : false
}