# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21887"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:14.524Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:05:05.402Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21887"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21887.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21887"
title: "ovl: fix UAF in ovl_dentry_update_reval by moving dput() in ovl_link_up"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novl: fix UAF in ovl_dentry_update_reval by moving dput() in ovl_link_up\n\nThe issue was caused by dput(upper) being called before\novl_dentry_update_reval(), while upper-\u003ed_flags was still\naccessed in ovl_dentry_remote().\n\nMove dput(upper) after its last use to prevent use-after-free.\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]\n print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488\n kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601\n ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline]\n ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167\n ovl_link_up fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:610 [inline]\n ovl_copy_up_one+0x2105/0x3490 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1170\n ovl_copy_up_flags+0x18d/0x200 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1223\n ovl_rename+0x39e/0x18c0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1136\n vfs_rename+0xf84/0x20a0 fs/namei.c:4893\n...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e"
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