CVE-2026-53174 (GCVE-0-2026-53174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:38 – Updated: 2026-06-28 06:39
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Title
ovl: keep err zero after successful ovl_cache_get()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: keep err zero after successful ovl_cache_get() ovl_iterate_merged() stores PTR_ERR(cache) in err before checking IS_ERR(cache). On success err holds the truncated cache pointer and can be returned as a bogus non-zero error. The syzbot reproducer reaches this through overlay-on-overlay readdir: getdents64 iterate_dir(outer overlay file) ovl_iterate_merged() ovl_cache_get() ovl_dir_read_merged() ovl_dir_read() iterate_dir(inner overlay file) ovl_iterate_merged() Only compute PTR_ERR(cache) on the error path.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: d25e4b739f8378419f990983f2542160e79738c5 , < e7051909a01bfb883bfa78b27514854068ac4b85 (git)
Affected: d25e4b739f8378419f990983f2542160e79738c5 , < 1711b6ed6953cee5940ca4c3a6e77f1b3798cee2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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