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CVE-2026-64458

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/ops-common: handle extreme intervals in damon_hot_score() Fix three issues in damon_hot_score() that comes from wrong handling of extreme (zero or too high) monitoring intervals user setup. When the user sets sampling interval zero, damon_max_nr_accesses(), which is called from damon_hot_score(), causes a divide-by-zero. Needless to say, it is a problem. When the user sets the aggregation interval zero, the function returns zero. It is wrong, since the real maximum nr_acceses in the setup should be one. Worse yet, it can cause another divide-by-zero from its caller, damon_hot_score(), since it uses damon_max_nr_accesses() return value as a denominator. When the user sets the aggregation interval very high, damon_hot_score() could return a value out of [0, DAMOS_MAX_SCORE] range. Since the return value is used as an index to the regions_score_histogram array, which is DAMOS_MAX_SCORE+1 size, it causes out of bounds array access. The issues can be relatively easily reproduced like below. The sysfs write permission is required, though. # ./damo start --damos_action lru_prio --damos_quota_space 100M \ --damos_quota_interval 1s # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0 # echo 0 > contexts/0/monitoring_attrs/intervals/sample_us # echo 0 > contexts/0/monitoring_attrs/intervals/aggr_us # echo commit > state # dmesg [...] [ 131.329762] Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [...] [ 131.336089] RIP: 0010:damon_hot_score+0x27/0xd0 [...] Fix the divide-by-zero intervals problems by explicitly handling the zero intervals in damon_max_nr_accesses(). Fix the out-of-bound array access by applying [0, DAMOS_MAX_SCORE] bounds before returning from damon_hot_score(). The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-64458
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 15:36 UTC
Published
2026-07-25 08:51 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-25 08:51 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 198f0f4c58b9f481e4e51c8c70a6ab9852bbab7f < 58321b4e6e4f0f412069ab27ccdd56292757343a, 198f0f4c58b9f481e4e51c8c70a6ab9852bbab7f < 74fef68d521150281e36cdaa20e9e1ee3e3aa146, 198f0f4c58b9f481e4e51c8c70a6ab9852bbab7f < ef2ae10a4582bc92b7e944181bbd2f87f3d30f3a, 198f0f4c58b9f481e4e51c8c70a6ab9852bbab7f < 9c8f31eaae6140ecadec0c07320498a944556de2 …
Linux Linux 5.16, 0 < 5.16, 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* …
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