CVE-2025-37863Improper Validation of Consistency within Input in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMay 9
Latest updateMar 25

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages14 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.6.236.6.88+3
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.12.25-1+1
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-100.100+1
CVEListV5linux/linuxcc0918b3582c98f12cfb30bf7496496d14bff3e90874b629f65320778e7e3e206177770666d9db18+4
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.12.25-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

21
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities2026-02-24
CVE-2025-37863 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase