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CVE-2024-57940

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Published: Jan 21, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: fix the infinite loop in exfat_readdir() If the file system is corrupted so that a cluster is linked to itself in the cluster chain, and there is an unused directory entry in the cluster, 'dentry' will not be incremented, causing condition 'dentry < max_dentries' unable to prevent an infinite loop. This infinite loop causes s_lock not to be released, and other tasks will hang, such as exfat_sync_fs(). This commit stops traversing the cluster chain when there is unused directory entry in the cluster to avoid this infinite loop.

Affected (9)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel
1 product
Linux Kernel
Configuration A
9 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
From 5.7 to 6.1.125
From 6.2 to 6.6.72
From 6.7 to 6.12.10
Version 6.13 rc1
Version 6.13 rc2
Version 6.13 rc3
Version 6.13 rc4
Version 6.13 rc5
Version 6.13 rc6

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