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Tracker / CVE-2024-58016

CVE-2024-58016

Medium 5.5

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]

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 5.1 → 5.10.235
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.179
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.129
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.13.3
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.78
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.14

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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