CVE-2024-56570

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service in OverlayFS via Invalid Inode Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (9)

Core 9

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 3.18.0 - 5.4.287linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.174linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.120linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.231linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.64linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.4linux
Linux/Linux < 3.18
Linux/Linux 3.18
Linux/Linux 5.10.231 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.174 - 5.15.*
... and 13 more
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026