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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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