CVE-2024-58016

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-58016
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-58016.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-58016
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-27T02:12:08.547Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:41:06.572385Z
Summary
safesetid: check size of policy writes
Details

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 handlepolicyupdate(), triggering a warning in kmalloc.

Check the size specified for write buffers before allocating.

[PM: subject tweak]

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/58xxx/CVE-2024-58016.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417
Fixed
976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3
Fixed
ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749a
Fixed
a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881
Fixed
96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6
Fixed
36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94
Fixed
c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4eb
Fixed
f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-58016.json"