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CVE-2023-45897

exfatprogs: exfatprogs allows out-of-bounds memory access

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 28, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read