VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2024-57943
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.19%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-01-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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().
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-824
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-824