CVE-2025-71197

CVE-2025-71197

published February 4, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00253 · 15.9th percentile
Published
2026-02-04T22:16Z
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 FEB 16:07Z
    w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store
    cvelistv5