CVE-2024-57940 — Infinite Loop in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV6.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 21
Latest updateMay 29
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().
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CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxca06197382bde0a3bc20215595d1c9ce20c6e341 — d8cfbb8723bd3d3222f360227a1cc15227189ca6+6