CVE-2025-37863
MEDIUMLinux Kernel OverlayFS Datadir Configuration - Denial of Service
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0023
EPSS Percentile
13.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel
< 6.6.88linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.14.4linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.7
Linux/Linux
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - 21d2ffb0e9838a175064c22f3a9de97d1f56f27d
Linux/Linux
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - b9e3579213ba648fa23f780e8d53e99011c62331
Linux/Linux
24e16e385f2272b1a9df51337a5c32d28a29c7ad - eb3a04a8516ee9b5174379306f94279fc90424c4
Linux/Linux
6.12.25 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.14.4 - 6.14.*
Linux/Linux
6.15
Linux/Linux
6.6.23 - 6.6.88
... and 5 more
Published
May 09, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026