mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23144
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure When a context DAMON sysfs directory setup is failed after setup of attrs/ directory, subdirectories of attrs/ directory are not cleaned up. As a result, DAMON sysfs interface is nearly broken until the system reboots, and the memory for the unremoved directory is leaked. Cleanup the directories under such failures.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c951cd3b89010c7a4751b9d4ea074007e44851e6 < db7dfe78fc81bdd2b532d77f340fe453f2360426 ; affected c951cd3b89010c7a4751b9d4ea074007e44851e6 < 43964644348f6b1add3055c4a6cae8f77d892a6e ; affected c951cd3b89010c7a4751b9d4ea074007e44851e6 < 5651c0c391c0029541794f9c4c9597faecfd401f ; affected c951cd3b89010c7a4751b9d4ea074007e44851e6 < 78b4eb99751ebd37ceade78810bf94de80f7fb3a ; affected c951cd3b89010c7a4751b9d4ea074007e44851e6 < 9814cc832b88bd040fc2a1817c2b5469d0f7e862
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.18 ; unaffected 0 < 5.18 ; unaffected 6.1.162 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.122 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.67 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.7 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD