CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2024-53685
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX
If the full path to be built by ceph_mdsc_build_path() happens to be
longer than PATH_MAX, then this function will enter an endless (retry)
loop, effectively blocking the whole task. Most of the machine
becomes unusable, making this a very simple and effective DoS
vulnerability.
I cannot imagine why this retry was ever implemented, but it seems
rather useless and harmful to me. Let's remove it and fail with
ENAMETOOLONG instead.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-835
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f2b2d9e881c90402dbe28f9ba831775b7992e1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/550f7ca98ee028a606aa75705a7e77b1bd11720f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99a37ab76a315c8307eb5b0dc095d8ad9d8efeaa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c47ed91156daf328601d02b58d52d9804da54108
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d42ad3f161a5a487f81915c406f46943c7187a0a