CVE-2024-58016

CVE-2024-58016: vulnerability in Linux

safesetid: check size of policy writes

Published · Updated

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.htmlhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4ebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html