CVE-2024-56570 (GCVE-0-2024-56570)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 14:23 – Updated: 2026-01-05 10:55
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Title
ovl: Filter invalid inodes with missing lookup function
Summary
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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Linux Linux Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < f9248e2f73fb4afe08324485e98c815ac084d166 (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < 5f86e79c0b2287ffdabe6c1b305a36c4e0f40fe3 (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < 749eac5a6687ec99116e0691d0d71225254654e3 (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < ff43d008bbf9b27ada434d6455f039a5ef6cee53 (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < 065bf5dd21639f80e68450de16bda829784dbb8c (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < 72014e7745cc8250bb8f27bd78694dfd3f1b5773 (git)
Affected: e9be9d5e76e34872f0c37d72e25bc27fe9e2c54c , < c8b359dddb418c60df1a69beea01d1b3322bfe83 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.287 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.231 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.174 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.120 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.64 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.4 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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