Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 21, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026
CVE-2024-57940
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.
Affected products
1- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.7
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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