CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-56570

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-12-27 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-12-27
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: Filter invalid inodes with missing lookup function Add a check to the ovl_dentry_weird() function to prevent the processing of directory inodes that lack the lookup function. This is important because such inodes can cause errors in overlayfs when passed to the lowerstack.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.287) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.231) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.4)

References