CVE-2024-57940
Published: Jan 21, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 - < d8cfbb8723bd3d3222f360227a1cc15227189ca6affected ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 - < 28c21f0ac5293a4bf19b3e0e32005d6dd31a6c17affected ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 - < 31beabd0f47f8c3ed9965ba861c9e5b252d4920aaffected ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 - < dc1d7afceb982e8f666e70a582e6b5aa806de063affected ca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 - < d9ea94f5cd117d56e573696d0045ab3044185a15+1 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.7unaffected 0 - < 5.7unaffected 5.10.234 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.177 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.125 - <= 6.1.*+3 more versions |
References
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