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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57940

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57940 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13linux0, 0
Debian:11linux-6.10, 6.1.119-1, 6.1.112-1
Debian:14linux0, 0
Debian:11linux5.10.70-1, 5.10.179-3, 5.10.191-1
Debian:12linux6.1.64-1, 6.1.66-1, 6.1.67-1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Jan 21, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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