CVE-2025-40307

exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 8, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: validate cluster allocation bits of the allocation bitmap

syzbot created an exfat image with cluster bits not set for the allocation bitmap. exfat-fs reads and uses the allocation bitmap without checking this. The problem is that if the start cluster of the allocation bitmap is 6, cluster 6 can be allocated when creating a directory with mkdir. exfat zeros out this cluster in exfat_mkdir, which can delete existing entries. This can reallocate the allocated entries. In addition, the allocation bitmap is also zeroed out, so cluster 6 can be reallocated. This patch adds exfat_test_bitmap_range to validate that clusters used for the allocation bitmap are correctly marked as in-use.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 to before 87f827d53bd0688597bda63ae95908e2ad39bac0Affected
  • 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 to before 67ce8034dc0278ddd88cad93d4218a945180ddddAffected
  • 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 to before 6bc58b4c53795ab5fe00648344aa7d9d61175f90Affected
  • 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 to before 13c1d24803d5b0446b3f6f0fdd67e07ac1fdc7bfAffected
  • 1acf1a564b6034b5af1e7fb23cb98cb3bb4f6003 to before 79c1587b6cda74deb0c86fc7ba194b92958c793cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.7Affected
  • before 5.7Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.148 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.58 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.8 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

References

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