CVE-2024-58016 (GCVE-0-2024-58016)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-27 02:12
Modified
2025-11-03 19:33
Severity ?
Summary
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]
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Linux Linux Version: aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417
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