CVE-2025-37863
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.
Published:May 9, 2025
Last Modified:Nov 12, 2025
EPS:May 9, 2025
EPSS Score:0.00043
CVSS Score:5.5
Affected Products
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Linux Kernel
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Linux Kernel
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