CVE-2024-58016

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

27/02/2025

Last modified:

03/11/2025

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]

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.1 (including)	5.10.235 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.179 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.129 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.78 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.14 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.13.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-58016

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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