CVE-2025-38258

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux7ee161f18b5da5170b5d6a51aace49d312099128 < 490a43d07f1663d827e802720d30cbc0494e4f81affected
LinuxLinux7ee161f18b5da5170b5d6a51aace49d312099128 < c5d5b0047b0c0f304608f3824139f7bd34c48413affected
LinuxLinux7ee161f18b5da5170b5d6a51aace49d312099128 < 4a158ac0538dd5695eeaa00aa0720d711f3e4ef1affected
LinuxLinux7ee161f18b5da5170b5d6a51aace49d312099128 < 4f489fe6afb395dbc79840efa3c05440b760d883affected
LinuxLinux6.3affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.3unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.96 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.36 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.5 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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