CVE-2026-46087 (GCVE-0-2026-46087)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:58 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:58
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Title
mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/stat: fix memory leak on damon_start() failure in damon_stat_start() Destroy the DAMON context and reset the global pointer when damon_start() fails. Otherwise, the context allocated by damon_stat_build_ctx() is leaked, and the stale damon_stat_context pointer will be overwritten on the next enable attempt, making the old allocation permanently unreachable.
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Linux Linux Affected: 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a , < 8a62c58411cbd748d7aeab0e5b0963e33ff47a7a (git)
Affected: 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a , < 50bc1d7e0f3bb6932c8dc5da0907eead0790176b (git)
Affected: 369c415e60732b7c8ed33368891581246f580d7a , < e04ed278d25bf15769800bf6e35c6737f137186f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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