CVE-2025-38258

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5d5b0047b0c0f304608f3824139f7bd34c48413

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f489fe6afb395dbc79840efa3c05440b760d883

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a158ac0538dd5695eeaa00aa0720d711f3e4ef1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/490a43d07f1663d827e802720d30cbc0494e4f81

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-09

Updated: 2025-07-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018