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CVE-2026-53335

mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure

Vexday Risk Score
0Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS EPSS KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
01 Jul 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/lru_sort: handle ctx allocation failure DAMON_LRU_SORT allocates the damon_ctx object for its kdamond in its init function. damon_lru_sort_enabled_store() wrongly assumes the allocation will always succeed once tried. If the damon_ctx allocation was failed, therefore, code execution reaches to damon_commit_ctx() while 'ctx' is NULL. As a result, it dereferences the NULL 'ctx' pointer. Avoid the NULL dereference by returning -ENOMEM if 'ctx' is NULL.
Affected products
Linux · Linux