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CVE-2026-72178— mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids

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Affected
Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.

Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel 6.11版本存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于mm/damon/core中damon_commit_target()函数未正确释放未成功提交的目标pid，导致pid泄漏。

AI Predicted 5.5 Difficulty: Moderate EPSS 0.20% · P10

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping

Affected Version Matrix 10

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 83dc7bbaecae6e69e338355e9a137f0e7a0ecc40< ea07e045611ca00f1ec7e448fd43e655d311158b affected
83dc7bbaecae6e69e338355e9a137f0e7a0ecc40< 3b91c35961fa5553b4dd36db1f06e3b4acbfc05d affected
83dc7bbaecae6e69e338355e9a137f0e7a0ecc40< 837f619f1d98e967bd63e51ecd1e77bfa468992d affected
83dc7bbaecae6e69e338355e9a137f0e7a0ecc40< 6a66c557a2ab2609575bafd15e093669c05f9711 affected
6.11 affected
< 6.11 unaffected
6.12.97≤ 6.12.* unaffected
6.18.40≤ 6.18.* unaffected
… +2 more rows
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-72178

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Vulnerability Title
mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids damon_commit_target() puts and gets the destination and the source target pids. It puts the destination target pid because it will be overwritten by the source target pid. It gets the source pid because the caller is supposed to eventually put the pids. In more detail, the caller will call damon_destroy_ctx() after damon_commit_ctx() to destroy the entire source context. And in this case, [f]vaddr operation set's cleanup_target() callback will put the pids. The commit operation is made at the context level. The operation can fail in multiple places including in the middle and after the targets commit operations. For any such failures, immediately the error is returned to the damon_commit_ctx() caller. If some or all of the source target pids were committed to the destination during the unsuccessful context commit attempt, those pids should be put twice. The source context will do the put operations using the above explained routine. However, let's suppose the destination context was not originally using [f]vaddr operation set and the commit failed before the ops of the source context is committed. The destination does not have the cleanup_target() ops callback, so it cannot put the pids via the damon_destroy_ctx(). As a result, the pids are leaked. The issue in the real world would be not very common. The commit feature is for changing parameters of running DAMON context while inheriting internal status like the monitoring results. The monitoring results of a physical address range ain't have things that are beneficial to be inherited to a virtual address ranges monitoring. So the problem-causing DAMON control would be not very common in the real world. That said, it is a supported feature. And damon_commit_target() failure due to memory allocation is relatively realistic [1] if there are a huge number of target regions. Fix by putting the pids in the commit operation in case of the failures. The issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会开源的一个操作系统内核。 Linux kernel 6.11版本存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于mm/damon/core中damon_commit_target()函数未正确释放未成功提交的目标pid，导致pid泄漏。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Linux Linux 83dc7bbaecae6e69e338355e9a137f0e7a0ecc40 ~ ea07e045611ca00f1ec7e448fd43e655d311158b -
Linux Linux 6.11 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-72178 (4)

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CVE-2026-72408 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: gate GRO hint in geneve_gro_complete() on gs->gro_hint
CVE-2026-74309 10.0 CRITICAL vdpa/octeon_ep: fix IRQ-to-ring mapping in interrupt handler
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CVE-2026-72407 10.0 CRITICAL geneve: validate inner network offset in geneve_gro_complete()
CVE-2026-72493 9.9 CRITICAL net: serialize netif_running() check in enqueue_to_backlog()
CVE-2026-72201 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: validate index entries on reading
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CVE-2026-72064 9.8 CRITICAL net: mana: Sync page pool RX frags for CPU
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CVE-2026-72192 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs3: bound to_move in indx_insert_into_root before hdr_insert_head
CVE-2026-74478 9.8 CRITICAL um: vector: fix use-after-free in vector_mmsg_rx()
CVE-2026-72194 9.8 CRITICAL fs/ntfs3: add depth limit to indx_find_buffer to prevent stack overflow
CVE-2026-74269 9.8 CRITICAL bnxt: fix head underflow on XDP head-grow
CVE-2026-72209 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: validate attribute values on lookup
CVE-2026-72211 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: grow index root value before reparent header update
CVE-2026-72210 9.8 CRITICAL ntfs: fix off-by-one in mapping pairs decoding bounds checks

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