CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-58016

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-02-27 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-02-27
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: safesetid: check size of policy writes syzbot attempts to write a buffer with a large size to a sysfs entry with writes handled by handle_policy_update(), triggering a warning in kmalloc. Check the size specified for write buffers before allocating. [PM: subject tweak]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.1 < 5.10.235) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.179) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.129) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.78) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.14) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.3)

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