PT-2026-43954 · Linux · Linux

Published 2026-05-27 · Updated 2026-05-27 · CVE-2026-46087

Mitre

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.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-46087

Affected Products

Linux

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46087 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a62c58411cbd748d7aeab0e5b0963e33ff47a7a · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e04ed278d25bf15769800bf6e35c6737f137186f · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50bc1d7e0f3bb6932c8dc5da0907eead0790176b · Note