Bug 2348533 (CVE-2024-58016) - CVE-2024-58016 kernel: safesetid: check size of policy writes
Summary: CVE-2024-58016 kernel: safesetid: check size of policy writes
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-58016
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-02-27 03:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-27 16:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 03:02:18 UTC
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]


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