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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
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CVE-2022-48996

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/damon/sysfs: fix wrong empty schemes assumption under online tuning in damon_sysfs_set_schemes()

Commit da87878010e5 (“mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update”) made
‘damon_sysfs_set_schemes()’ to be called for running DAMON context, which
could have schemes. In the case, DAMON sysfs interface is supposed to
update, remove, or add schemes to reflect the sysfs files. However, the
code is assuming the DAMON context wouldn’t have schemes at all, and
therefore creates and adds new schemes. As a result, the code doesn’t
work as intended for online schemes tuning and could have more than
expected memory footprint. The schemes are all in the DAMON context, so
it doesn’t leak the memory, though.

Remove the wrong asssumption (the DAMON context wouldn’t have schemes) in
‘damon_sysfs_set_schemes()’ to fix the bug.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 6.1

Additional Info

Technical Analysis