CVE-2026-53335

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/daab1996431a71f43219dcac48ecc9ad2aad3f1c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab04340b5ae5d52c1d46b750538febcde9d889e7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d48f15659395bf1381114f01be91bc68e0be46a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-01

Updated: 2026-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium