CVE-2024-57943

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57943

Import Source

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-57943

Downstream

Published

2025-01-21T13:15:08Z

Modified

2025-02-28T19:07:31Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

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 foliozeronewbuffers() to zero the new buffers before ->writeend().

References

Affected packages

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.12.10-1

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}