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CVE-2016-10318

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A missing authorization check in the fscrypt_process_policy function in fs/crypto/policy.c in the ext4 and f2fs filesystem encryption support in the Linux kernel before 4.7.4 allows a user to assign an encryption policy to a directory owned by a different user, potentially creating a denial of service.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.7.3

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=163ae1c6ad6299b19e22b4a35d5ab24a89791a98
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97404
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/163ae1c6ad6299b19e22b4a35d5ab24a89791a98
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=163ae1c6ad6299b19e22b4a35d5ab24a89791a98
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97404
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/163ae1c6ad6299b19e22b4a35d5ab24a89791a98

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