fkie_cve-2024-58016
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-02-27 03:15
Modified
2025-11-03 20:16
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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]
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4ebPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *


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