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safesetid: check size of policy writes
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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]
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.235, 5.15.179, 6.1.129, 6.12.14, 6.13.3, 6.6.78
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-58016
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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]
osv:CVE-2024-58016
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.10.235, 5.15.179, 6.1.129, 6.6.78, 6.12.14, 6.13.3
Complete source record
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