Riskcovery

CVE-2024-56570

ovl: Filter invalid inodes with missing lookup function

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before f9248e2f73fb4afe08324485e98c815ac084d166Affected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before 5f86e79c0b2287ffdabe6c1b305a36c4e0f40fe3Affected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before 749eac5a6687ec99116e0691d0d71225254654e3Affected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before ff43d008bbf9b27ada434d6455f039a5ef6cee53Affected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before 065bf5dd21639f80e68450de16bda829784dbb8cAffected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before 72014e7745cc8250bb8f27bd78694dfd3f1b5773Affected
  • e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c to before c8b359dddb418c60df1a69beea01d1b3322bfe83Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.18Affected
  • before 3.18Not affected
  • 5.4.287 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.231 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.174 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.120 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.64 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.4 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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