CVE-2024-53685 (GCVE-0-2024-53685)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-11 12:35
Modified
2025-11-03 20:48
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
Version: 9030aaf9bf0a1eee47a154c316c789e959638b0f
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