High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 21, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-57943
CVE-2024-57943
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().
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