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CVE-2025-71197

kernel: w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · February 4, 2026

Updated · June 28, 2026

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.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified