{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "urgency": "not yet assigned"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Debian:14",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.0.13-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-53174",
  "modified": "2026-09-14T16:47:41.822295009Z",
  "published": "2026-06-25T09:16:34.747Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-53174"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-53174"
  ]
}