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

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...