Security Advisory

CVE-2025-71197

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-02-04 16:07:32
Last updated 2026-07-14 12:44:58
Assigner Linux
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store The sysfs buffer passed to alarms_store() is allocated with 'size + 1' bytes and a NUL terminator is appended. However, the 'size' argument does not account for this extra byte. The original code then allocated 'size' bytes and used strcpy() to copy 'buf', which always writes one byte past the allocated buffer since strcpy() copies until the NUL terminator at index 'size'. Fix this by parsing the 'buf' parameter directly using simple_strtoll() without allocating any intermediate memory or string copying. This removes the overflow while simplifying the code.