Security Advisory

CVE-2024-57940

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-01-21 12:18:09
Last updated 2026-05-12 12:01:40
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

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.