CVE-2025-71197
w1: therm: Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in alarms_store
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
04 Feb 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/060b08d72a38b158a7f850d4b83c17c2969e0f6bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49ff9b4b9deacbefa6654a0a2bcaf910c9de7e95https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a5820ecfa5a76c3d3e154802c8c15f391ef442ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fd6d2a8e41b7f544a4d26cbd60bedf9c67893a0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/761fcf46a1bd797bd32d23f3ea0141ffd437668ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3fc3e1f04dcc7c41787bbf08a6e0d2728e022cfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6b2609af21b5cccc9559339591b8a2cbf884169