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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-53685

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/11/2025 8:15:25 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/550f7ca98ee028a606aa75705a7e77b1bd11720f
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99a37ab76a315c8307eb5b0dc095d8ad9d8efeaa
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c47ed91156daf328601d02b58d52d9804da54108