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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-04-04T16:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.846Z
Reserved: 2017-04-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-10318
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-04-04T16:59:00.157
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2016-10318
 Redhat
                        Redhat