Astra Linux – vulnerability in linux-6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: do not allow datadir only Theoretically, overlayfs could support a higher layer directly referencing a data layer; however, there is currently no practical use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced...

USN-2644-2 linux-lts-utopic regression

The Fix for CVE-2015-1328 introduced a regression into the Linux kernel's overlayfs file system. The removal of a directory that only exists on the lower layer results in a kernel panic. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege...