CVE-2024-57943

exfat: fix the new buffer was not zeroed before writing

High · published January 21, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

exfat: fix the new buffer was not zeroed before writing

Before writing, if a buffer_head marked as new, its data must

be zeroed, otherwise uninitialized data in the page cache will

be written.

So this commit uses folio_zero_new_buffers() to zero the new

buffers before ->write_end().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00196 · 8.8th percentile
Published
2025-01-21T12:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 JAN 12:18Z
    exfat: fix the new buffer was not zeroed before writing
    cvelistv5