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National Vulnerability Database

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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-46937

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 2/27/2024 5:15:08 AM

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

mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'

DAMON debugfs interface increases the reference counts of 'struct pid's
for targets from the 'target_ids' file write callback
('dbgfs_target_ids_write()'), but decreases the counts only in DAMON
monitoring termination callback ('dbgfs_before_terminate()').

Therefore, when 'target_ids' file is repeatedly written without DAMON
monitoring start/termination, the reference count is not decreased and
therefore memory for the 'struct pid' cannot be freed.  This commit
fixes this issue by decreasing the reference counts when 'target_ids' is
written.

								
								
					

					

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Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebb3f994dd92f8fb4d70c7541091216c1e10cb71 [No types assigned]

								
								
					

					

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Linux https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffe4a1ba1a82c416a6b3a09d46594f6a885ae141 [No types assigned]