CVE-2024-58085

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Large Allocation in tomoyo_write_control

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() syzbot is reporting too large allocation warning at tomoyo_write_control(), for one can write a very very long line without new line character. To fix this warning, I use __GFP_NOWARN rather than checking for KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE, for practically a valid line should be always shorter than 32KB where the "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule applies. One might try to write a valid line that is longer than 32KB, but such request will likely fail with -ENOMEM. Therefore, I feel that separately returning -EINVAL when a line is longer than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE is redundant. There is no need to distinguish over-32KB and over-KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.9%
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 (26)
linux/Kernel 3.1.0 - 5.4.291linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.179linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.129linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.235linux
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 < 3.1
Linux/Linux 3.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
... and 16 more
Published Mar 06, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026