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CVE-2025-37863 (GCVE-0-2025-37863)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-09 06:43 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:58
VLAI
Title
ovl: don't allow datadir only
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: don't allow datadir only In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: cc0918b3582c98f12cfb30bf7496496d14bff3e9 , < 0874b629f65320778e7e3e206177770666d9db18 (git)
Affected: 24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad , < b9e3579213ba648fa23f780e8d53e99011c62331 (git)
Affected: 24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad , < 21d2ffb0e9838a175064c22f3a9de97d1f56f27d (git)
Affected: 24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad , < eb3a04a8516ee9b5174379306f94279fc90424c4 (git)
Affected: 6.6.23 , < 6.6.88 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.88 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.25 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.4 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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