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.
References (8)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (7)
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.177linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.125linux
linux/Kernel
5.7.0 - 5.10.234linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.72linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.10linux
linux/linux_kernel
6.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
5.7 - 6.1.125
Published
Jan 21, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026