CVE-2025-38258
kernel: mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: free old damon_sysfs_scheme_filter->memcg_path on write
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 9, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: free old damon_sysfs_scheme_filter->memcg_path on write
memcg_path_store() assigns a newly allocated memory buffer to filter->memcg_path, without deallocating the previously allocated and assigned memory buffer. As a result, users can leak kernel memory by continuously writing a data to memcg_path DAMOS sysfs file. Fix the leak by deallocating the previously set memory buffer.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime