CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40307
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap
syzbot created an exfat image with cluster bits not set for the allocation
bitmap. exfat-fs reads and uses the allocation bitmap without checking
this. The problem is that if the start cluster of the allocation bitmap
is 6, cluster 6 can be allocated when creating a directory with mkdir.
exfat zeros out this cluster in exfat_mkdir, which can delete existing
entries. This can reallocate the allocated entries. In addition,
the allocation bitmap is also zeroed out, so cluster 6 can be reallocated.
This patch adds exfat_test_bitmap_range to validate that clusters used for
the allocation bitmap are correctly marked as in-use.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67ce8034dc0278ddd88cad93d4218a945180dddd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f827d53bd0688597bda63ae95908e2ad39bac0 git.kernel.org