CVE-2016-10318: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.7.3

Published 2017-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.