CVE-2025-71197

Linux Kernel 5.8.0-6.18.7 - Buffer Overflow in w1 therm alarms_store

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store The sysfs buffer passed to alarms_store() is allocated with 'size + 1' bytes and a NUL terminator is appended. However, the 'size' argument does not account for this extra byte. The original code then allocated 'size' bytes and used strcpy() to copy 'buf', which always writes one byte past the allocated buffer since strcpy() copies until the NUL terminator at index 'size'. Fix this by parsing the 'buf' parameter directly using simple_strtoll() without allocating any intermediate memory or string copying. This removes the overflow while simplifying the code.

Scores

EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.3%

Details

Status published
Products (22)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.199linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.162linux
linux/Kernel 5.8.0 - 5.10.249linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.122linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.68linux
Linux/Linux < 5.8
Linux/Linux 5.10.249 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.199 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.8
... and 12 more
Published Feb 04, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026