5.5

CVE-2024-58016: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-58016DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58016
Published 27-02-2025Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-58016 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 27 · Related 26
DLA-4102-1DLA-4178-1USN-7510-1USN-7510-2USN-7510-3USN-7510-4

Timeline

  1. 27-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu137 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-140.150 | < 6.8.0-64.67
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1084.91 | < 6.8.0-1032.34
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < 976284b94f2021df09829e37a367e19b84d9e5f3 | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < ecf6a4a558097920447a6fb84dfdb279e2ac749a | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < a0dec65f88c8d9290dfa1d2ca1e897abe54c5881 | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < 96fae5bd1589731592d30b3953a90a77ef3928a6 | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < 36b385d0f2b4c0bf41d491e19075ecd990d2bf94 | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < c71d35676d46090c891b6419f253fb92a1a9f4eb | ≥ aeca4e2ca65c1aeacfbe520684e6421719d99417, < f09ff307c7299392f1c88f763299e24bc99811c7 | 5.1
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.1, < 5.10.235 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.179 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.129 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.78 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.14 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.129-1 | < 6.12.15-1

3 vendors · 140 products

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