Bug 2246976 (CVE-2023-45897)

Summary: CVE-2023-45897 exfatprogs: exfatprogs allows out-of-bounds memory access
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
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A flaw was found in Exfatprogs, a userspace utility that contains all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, and debugging the exfat filesystem in the linux system.This issue may allow out-of-bounds memory access such as in read_file_dentry_set. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must possess authorization with privileges granting basic user capabilities, and can achieve out-of-bounds memory access.
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Bug Depends On: 2248680, 2248681    
Bug Blocks: 2246977    

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2023-11-08 10:36:53 UTC
Created exfatprogs tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2248681]
Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2248680]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 10:51:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2437 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2437