CVE-2024-57943

HIGH EPSS 9.1%
Published Jan 21, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
7.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Jan 21, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

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().

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
9.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-824

Affected Products 7

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.12  –  <6.12.10
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any
linuxlinux_kernel6.13any

References 2

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942c6f91ab8d82a41650e717940b4e577173762f
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e2fb26d1a9eafe79f46d15d54e68e014d81d8c
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942c6f91ab8d82a41650e717940b4e577173762f
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e2fb26d1a9eafe79f46d15d54e68e014d81d8c
    Patch