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CVE-2025-37863

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CVE-2025-37863

Published: May 9, 2025

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
cc0918b3582c98f12cfb30bf7496496d14bff3e9 - < 0874b629f65320778e7e3e206177770666d9db18
affected
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - < b9e3579213ba648fa23f780e8d53e99011c62331
affected
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - < 21d2ffb0e9838a175064c22f3a9de97d1f56f27d
affected
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - < eb3a04a8516ee9b5174379306f94279fc90424c4
affected
6.6.23 - < 6.6.88

Linux

Linux

affected
6.7
unaffected
0 - < 6.7
unaffected
6.6.88 - <= 6.6.*
unaffected
6.12.25 - <= 6.12.*
unaffected
6.14.4 - <= 6.14.*

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