CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-57943
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-01-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-824
Description
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().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness