Security Advisory
CVE-2024-56570
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
December 27, 2024
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory