CVE-2024-57943: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.12, before 6.12.10 (fixed in 6.12.10); version 6.13 only

Published 2025-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.