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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-37863

CVE-2025-37863

Description

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.

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Affected products

6
  • Linux/Kernel5 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.6.23,<6.6.88
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.7
  • osv-coords
    Range: < 6.6.88

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