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CVE-2026-74619

ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace

fsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc->user_ns and hands
back an ordinary file descriptor. Nothing ties the task that calls
fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) to the task that created the context. The
fd is inherited across fork() and exec() and it can be passed over a
unix socket.

Completing a context from another user namespace is allowed on purpose.
vfs_cmd_create() authorizes the create with mount_capable(), which for
FS_USERNS_MOUNT checks ns_capable(fc->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN), and that
succeeds for a task holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an ancestor of fc->user_ns.
So an unprivileged task can reach the WARN_ON() in ovl_fill_super():
create a user and a mount namespace in a child, call fsopen("overlay")
there, send the fscontext fd to the parent and let the parent issue
FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE. Both namespaces come from a plain unshare(1) and no
capability is needed anywhere:

  WARNING: fs/overlayfs/super.c:1551 at ovl_fill_super+0x7b9/0x1e20 [overlay]
  CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 3243376 Comm: fswarn
  Call Trace:
   get_tree_nodev+0x71/0xa0
   ovl_get_tree+0x15/0x20 [overlay]
   vfs_get_tree+0x2a/0x100
   vfs_cmd_create+0x60/0xf0
   __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4b2/0x500

The child needs the mount namespace because fsopen() itself gates on
may_mount(), which asks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user namespace owning
the caller's mount namespace. fsconfig() doesn't repeat that check.

It is a WARN_ON() and not a WARN_ON_ONCE(), so the condition can be
raised in a loop to taint the kernel and flood the log, and it panics a
kernel booted with panic_on_warn.

Keep refusing the mount and stop warning about it. ovl_parse_param()
already spells a user namespace check this way for Opt_override_creds.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 1784fbc2ed9c888ea4e895f30a53207ed7ee8208
Version < 513478092966dc9818d96dd2b3ed613fd2f6e30e
Status affected
Version 1784fbc2ed9c888ea4e895f30a53207ed7ee8208
Version < 494346f2aab2489d379d43ff614aea447cf4e94d
Status affected
Version 1784fbc2ed9c888ea4e895f30a53207ed7ee8208
Version < be161fa31e3e9cc828a3c1bd935edca461e8a7a1
Status affected
Version 1784fbc2ed9c888ea4e895f30a53207ed7ee8208
Version < 42d99fcd8006007e2f708bede6789f37f3910b30
Status affected
Version 1784fbc2ed9c888ea4e895f30a53207ed7ee8208
Version < 63981fc786daaa626cb14d9be1406f674d79f98f
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.5
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.5
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.152
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.104
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.45
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.1.*
Version 7.1.9
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.2
Status unaffected
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42d99fcd8006007e2f708bede6789f37f3910b30
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/494346f2aab2489d379d43ff614aea447cf4e94d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/513478092966dc9818d96dd2b3ed613fd2f6e30e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63981fc786daaa626cb14d9be1406f674d79f98f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be161fa31e3e9cc828a3c1bd935edca461e8a7a1