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CVE-2024-57943

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-01-21 Modified: 2026-06-17

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().

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-824, CWE-824

References