VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-58016

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-02-27
Last modified2026-10-15
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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]

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references