CVE-2024-58016 Affecting kernel-debuginfo package, versions <0:6.1.129-138.220.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELDEBUGINFO-10338422
  • published11 Jun 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-58016  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-debuginfo to version 0:6.1.129-138.220.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-876.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo package and not the kernel-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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]

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1