| Name | CVE-2024-57940 |
| 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(). This commit stops traversing the cluster chain when there is unused directory entry in the cluster to avoid this infinite loop. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5860-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm | 6.1.123-1 | vulnerable | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.128-1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 6.12.12-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.12.15-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | bookworm | 6.1.128-1 | DSA-5860-1 | ||
| linux | source | (unstable) | 6.12.10-1 |
https://git.kernel.org/linus/fee873761bd978d077d8c55334b4966ac4cb7b59 (6.13-rc7)