CVE-2024-56570 (GCVE-0-2024-56570)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-27 14:23
Modified
2026-01-05 10:55
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
Version: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c
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