Bug 2521447 (CVE-2026-74619) - CVE-2026-74619 kernel: ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace
Summary: CVE-2026-74619 kernel: ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from anoth...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74619
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2026-08-22 15:46 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-24 14:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-22 15:46:03 UTC
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.


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