ghsa-f32m-f53g-3875
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-02-27 03:34
Modified
2025-11-03 21:32
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-58016"
  ],
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    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsafesetid: check size of policy writes\n\nsyzbot attempts to write a buffer with a large size to a sysfs entry\nwith writes handled by handle_policy_update(), triggering a warning\nin kmalloc.\n\nCheck the size specified for write buffers before allocating.\n\n[PM: subject tweak]",
  "id": "GHSA-f32m-f53g-3875",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:32:58Z",
  "published": "2025-02-27T03:34:03Z",
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