CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72177

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a bug was found in mm/damon/sysfs-schemes in the access_pattern_add_dirs() function, where error paths release directory references in the wrong order. This can lead to uninitialized memory dereference or memory leak. The issue has been fixed.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential uninitialized memory dereference or memory leak, which could lead to system instability or crashes. Although allocation failures are rare, the consequences can be severe.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes the reference release order in error paths as soon as possible. Monitor for updates and deploy them in production systems.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix dir put orders in access_pattern_add_dirs() Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong directories put orders in error paths". Error paths of damon_sysfs_access_pattern_add_dirs() and damon_sysfs_scheme_add_dirs() functions put references to directories in wrong orders. As a result, uninitialized memory dereference and/or memory leak can happen. Fix those. This patch (of 2): In access_pattern_add_dirs(), error handling path puts references starting from setup failed directories. If the failure happpened from the initial allication in the setup functions, uninitialized memory dereference happen. The allocation failures will not commonly happen, but the consequence is quite bad. Fix the wrong reference put orders. The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

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