CVE-2024-58016: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.1, before 5.10.235 (fixed in 5.10.235); from 5.11, before 5.15.179 (fixed in 5.15.179); from 5.16, before 6.1.129 (fixed in 6.1.129); from 6.2, before 6.6.78 (fixed in 6.6.78); from 6.7, before 6.12.14 (fixed in 6.12.14); from 6.13, before 6.13.3 (fixed in 6.13.3)

Published 2025-02-27. Last modified 2026-07-14.