๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2024-57943

HIGH 7.8

exfat: fix the new buffer was not zeroed before writing

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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().

Vendor linux
Product linux
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Technology
Published Jan 21, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
6630ea49103c3d45461e29b0f6eb0ce750aeb8f5 < 942c6f91ab8d82a41650e717940b4e577173762f 6630ea49103c3d45461e29b0f6eb0ce750aeb8f5 < 98e2fb26d1a9eafe79f46d15d54e68e014d81d8c
Linux / Linux
6.12

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942c6f91ab8d82a41650e717940b4e577173762f git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e2fb26d1a9eafe79f46d15d54e68e014d81d8c