[NVD] 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 specif

CVE-2024-58016 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2025-02-27T03:15:12.590

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.

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