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CVE-2024-58016

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-02-27 Modified: 2026-07-14

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]

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References