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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-56570

CVE-2024-56570

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.

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