CVE-2024-58016

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]

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2025-02-27

Modified

2026-10-15

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4eb

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