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.
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00025}

epss

{'score': 0.00026}


Sat, 10 May 2025 02:30:00 +0000

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References
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None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate


Fri, 09 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title ovl: don't allow datadir only
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-26T05:22:33.385Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:23.958Z

Link: CVE-2025-37863

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-09T07:16:07.317

Modified: 2025-05-12T17:32:32.760

Link: CVE-2025-37863

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-05-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-37863 - Bugzilla

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