CVE-2024-57940

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.1.125 - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

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