CVE-2026-53174

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's overlay filesystem ovl component. Specifically, an issue in the ovliteratemerged function incorrectly stores an error pointer even after a successful cache operation. This can lead to the function returning a misleading non-zero error, potentially causing...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-53174

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: keep err zero after successful ovlcacheget ovliteratemerged stores PTRERRcache in err before checking ISERRcache. On success err holds the truncated cache pointer and can be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The syzbot...

CVE-2026-53174 ovl: keep err zero after successful ovl_cache_get()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: keep err zero after successful ovlcacheget ovliteratemerged stores PTRERRcache in err before checking ISERRcache. On success err holds the truncated cache pointer and can be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The syzbot...

EUVD-2026-39265

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: keep err zero after successful ovlcacheget ovliteratemerged stores PTRERRcache in err before checking ISERRcache. On success err holds the truncated cache pointer and can be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The syzbot...

CVE-2026-53174

CVE-2026-53174 affects the Linux kernel overlay filesystem (ovl). The bug in ovl_iterate_merged() stores PTR_ERR(cache) in err before validating the cache with IS_ERR(cache), so on success err may hold a truncated cache pointer and be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The repro path goes throug...

CVE-2026-53174

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: keep err zero after successful ovlcacheget ovliteratemerged stores PTRERRcache in err before checking ISERRcache. On success err holds the truncated cache pointer and can be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The syzbot...

kernel: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SELinux security module when handling overlayfs. The existing security model for overlayfs does not properly enforce access controls for mmap and mprotect operations. This oversight could allow a local attacker to bypass intended security policies, potential...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ovl: fixed the warning in ovlcreatereal Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovlworkdircreate - ovlcreatereal: if !err && WARNON!newdentry-d inode The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: The fs subsystem should pass the ATGETATTRNOSEC flag to the getattr interface function. When the vfsgetattrnosec function calls the getattr interface of a file system, the nosec flag should be propagated into this function, so th...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fixed null pointer dereference in ovlgetaclrcu The following processes are involved: P1 P2 pathopenat linkpathwalk maylookup inodepermissionrcu ovlpermission aclpermissioncheck checkacl getcachedaclrcu ovlget inodeacl...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux-6.1, Linux-5.15, Linux-5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ovl: Fixed a UAF Use-After-Free in ovldentryupdatereval by moving the dput function within ovllinkup. The issue arose because dputupper was called before ovldentryupdatereval, while upper-dflags was still accessed in...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux-6.1

Local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu Kernels overlayfs: Ovlcopyupmeta inodedata function skips permission checks when calling ohldosetxattr on Ubuntu kernels...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: Use the “buf” flexible array as the destination for memcpy. The “buf” flexible array must be used as the destination for memcpy to avoid false positive run-time warnings caused by the recent FORTIFYSOURCE hardening measures:...

kernel: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's SELinux security module when handling overlayfs. The existing security model for overlayfs does not properly enforce access controls for mmap and mprotect operations. This oversight could allow a local attacker to bypass intended security policies, potential...

SUSE CVE-2026-46054

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap and mprotect access checks The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if the current task is able to access the top level file the "user" file and the mounter's credentials ar...

CVE-2026-46054

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap and mprotect access checks The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if the current task is able to access the top level file the "user" file and the mounter's credentials ar...

EUVD-2026-32436

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap and mprotect access checks The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if the current task is able to access the top level file the "user" file and the mounter's credentials ar...

CVE-2026-46054

CVE-2026-46054 affects the Linux kernel SELinux overlayfs access checks for mmap() and mprotect(). The issue arises from insufficient enforcement of backing-file access between the user file and backing file, potentially bypassing policies. A patch introduces security_mmap_backing_file() to enfor...

CVE-2026-46054 selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: fix overlayfs mmap and mprotect access checks The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if the current task is able to access the top level file the "user" file and the mounter's credentials ar...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-46054

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - selinux: fix overlayfs mmap and mprotect access checks The existing SELinux security model for overlayfs is to allow access if the current task is able to acces...