CVE-2025-40307
Published: Dec 8, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - < 6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90affected 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - < 13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bfaffected 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - < 79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793c |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.7unaffected 0 - < 5.7unaffected 6.12.58 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.17.8 - <= 6.17.*unaffected 6.18 - <= * |
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