CVE-2024-58016 Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.129-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-9576040
  • published1 Apr 2025
  • disclosed27 Feb 2025

Introduced: 27 Feb 2025

CVE-2024-58016  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.129-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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