CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-53685

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-01-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-01-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX If the full path to be built by ceph_mdsc_build_path() happens to be longer than PATH_MAX, then this function will enter an endless (retry) loop, effectively blocking the whole task. Most of the machine becomes unusable, making this a very simple and effective DoS vulnerability. I cannot imagine why this retry was ever implemented, but it seems rather useless and harmful to me. Let's remove it and fail with ENAMETOOLONG instead.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.35 < 5.10.234) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.177) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.125) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.70) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.7) • linux linux kernel 2.6.34 • linux linux kernel 6.13

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References