CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38692
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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:
exfat: add cluster chain loop check for dir
An infinite loop may occur if the following conditions occur due to
file system corruption.
(1) Condition for exfat_count_dir_entries() to loop infinitely.
- The cluster chain includes a loop.
- There is no UNUSED entry in the cluster chain.
(2) Condition for exfat_create_upcase_table() to loop infinitely.
- The cluster chain of the root directory includes a loop.
- There are no UNUSED entry and up-case table entry in the cluster
chain of the root directory.
(3) Condition for exfat_load_bitmap() to loop infinitely.
- The cluster chain of the root directory includes a loop.
- There are no UNUSED entry and bitmap entry in the cluster chain
of the root directory.
(4) Condition for exfat_find_dir_entry() to loop infinitely.
- The cluster chain includes a loop.
- The unused directory entries were exhausted by some operation.
(5) Condition for exfat_check_dir_empty() to loop infinitely.
- The cluster chain includes a loop.
- The unused directory entries were exhausted by some operation.
- All files and sub-directories under the directory are deleted.
This commit adds checks to break the above infinite loop.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 6.6.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.43)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3cda20c4cf1871e27868d08fda06b79bc7d568 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/868f23286c1a13162330fa6c614fe350f78e3f82 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99f9a97dce39ad413c39b92c90393bbd6778f3fd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa8fe7b7b73d4c9a41bb96cb3fb3092f794ecb33 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2066ca3ef49a30920d8536fa366b2a183a808ee Patch