Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-58016
CVE-2024-58016
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]
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Affected products
5- osv-coords2 versions
< 6.11.0-1014.15+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1014.15
- (no CPE)range: >= 5.1.0, < 5.10.235
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4ebnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749anvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7nvdPatch
- cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.htmlnvd
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