Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: Do not allow “datadir” alone as a parameter. Theoretically, OverlayFS could support upper-layer references to a data layer, but there are currently no use cases for this feature. Originally, when data-only layers were...

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...