CVE-2024-58016

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Oversized Policy Write Buffer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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]

References (11)

Core 11
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 5.1.0 - 5.10.235linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.179linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.129linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.78linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.14linux
Linux/Linux < 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.179 - 5.15.*
... and 13 more
Published Feb 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026