CVE-2024-57943

HIGH

Linux kernel - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-824
Status published
Products (3)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.10linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.10
Published Jan 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026