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User Interaction
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Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2024-50068

Disclosure Date: October 29, 2024
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Description

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

mm/damon/tests/sysfs-kunit.h: fix memory leak in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets()

The sysfs_target->regions allocated in damon_sysfs_regions_alloc() is not
freed in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets(), which cause the following memory
leak, free it to fix it.

unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a8db80 (size 96):
  comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 187, jiffies 4294894363
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 0):
    [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
    [<000000008e6835c1>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4
    [<000000001286d9f8>] damon_sysfs_test_add_targets+0x1cc/0x738
    [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac
    [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec
    [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374
    [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

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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

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