{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37863 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-37863 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-37863 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-37863 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37863 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37863/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37863/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-37863","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37863/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-37863","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-37863","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37863","GHSA-h6p5-jr3p-xjfg","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-37863","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37863","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37863"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel overlayfs","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel Oops and denial of service by configuring overlayfs with a datadir but no lowerdir.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novl: don't allow datadir only\n\nIn theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data\nlayer, but there's no current use case for this.\n\nOriginally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,\nonly introduced by the \"datadir+\" feature, but without actually handling\nthis case, resulting in an Oops.\n\nFix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ovl: don't allow datadir only","id":"CVE-2025-37863","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"net: dsa: clean up FDB, MDB, VLAN entries on unbind","id":"CVE-2025-37864"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"HID: pidff: Fix null pointer dereference in pidff_find_fields","id":"CVE-2025-37862"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-05-09","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel Oops and denial of service by configuring overlayfs with a datadir but no lowerdir.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-37863/"}