CVE-2024-57943

high

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().

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e2fb26d1a9eafe79f46d15d54e68e014d81d8c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/942c6f91ab8d82a41650e717940b4e577173762f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-21

Updated: 2025-02-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017