CVE-2024-56570

medium
Published 2025-05-13 ยท Modified 2025-05-13
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.12.5-1
sid Fixed 6.12.5-1
forky Fixed 6.12.5-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.234-1
bookworm Fixed 6.1.123-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
9 Fixed โ€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.