Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure
When a context DAMON sysfs directory setup is failed after setup of attrs/ directory, subdirectories of attrs/ directory are not cleaned up. As a result, DAMON sysfs interface is nearly broken until the system reboots, and the memory for the unremoved directory is leaked.
Cleanup the directories under such failures.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 10 | Released |
30 kernels
|
| AlmaLinux 9 | Released |
85 kernels
|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | Released |
16 kernels
|
| AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU | Released |
3 kernels
|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | Released |
46 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 10 | Released |
31 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 | Released |
93 kernels
|
| RHEL 10 | Released |
33 kernels
|
| RHEL 9 | Released |
86 kernels
|
| Rocky Linux 10 | Released |
23 kernels
|
| Rocky Linux 9 | Released |
70 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Released |
43 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |