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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().

Affected products

2
  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy2 versions
    (expand)+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.12

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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