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.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
UNKNOWN
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LinuxCNA
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Awaiting analysis
This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 5%
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linux
bullseye
5.10.223-1
not-affected
bookworm
6.1.137-1
not-affected
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.147-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.41-1
fixed
forky
6.12.38-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.38-1
fixed
sid
6.16.3-1
fixed