CVE-2025-71197
Linux Kernel 5.8.0-6.18.7 - Buffer Overflow in w1 therm alarms_store
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
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