Threats tagged 'ghsa-6c8g-q98p-w229'

CVE-2026-31459 is a medium severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's DAMON_SYSFS subsystem. It involves a memory leak and potential NULL pointer dereference when damon_sysfs_new_test_ctx() fails during damon_sysfs_commit_input(). This occurs because the failure path skips cleanup, leaking param_ctx memory. The issue affects local privileged users and can cause denial of service due to kernel instability.