CVE-2024-58016
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
27/02/2025
Last modified:
13/03/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
safesetid: check size of policy writes<br />
<br />
syzbot attempts to write a buffer with a large size to a sysfs entry<br />
with writes handled by handle_policy_update(), triggering a warning<br />
in kmalloc.<br />
<br />
Check the size specified for write buffers before allocating.<br />
<br />
[PM: subject tweak]
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7