CVE-2025-40307

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in exFAT Allocation Bitmap Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap syzbot created an exfat image with cluster bits not set for the allocation bitmap. exfat-fs reads and uses the allocation bitmap without checking this. The problem is that if the start cluster of the allocation bitmap is 6, cluster 6 can be allocated when creating a directory with mkdir. exfat zeros out this cluster in exfat_mkdir, which can delete existing entries. This can reallocate the allocated entries. In addition, the allocation bitmap is also zeroed out, so cluster 6 can be reallocated. This patch adds exfat_test_bitmap_range to validate that clusters used for the allocation bitmap are correctly marked as in-use.

Scores

EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 7.1%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 5.7.0 - 6.12.58linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.8linux
Linux/Linux < 5.7
Linux/Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - 13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bf
Linux/Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - 6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90
Linux/Linux 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 - 79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793c
Linux/Linux 5.7
Linux/Linux 6.12.58 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.17.8 - 6.17.*
Linux/Linux 6.18
Published Dec 08, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026