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CVE-2024-56570

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2024-12-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References