Access of Uninitialized Pointer
CVE-2024-57943
Summary
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().
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-824 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer
The program accesses or uses a pointer that has not been initialized.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published