privileged control path

  1. CVE-2026-31458: DAMON sysfs NULL Dereference via Zero Contexts

    CVE-2026-31458 is a small-looking Linux kernel flaw with very practical consequences: a privileged user can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in DAMON’s sysfs control path by shrinking the context list to zero and then issuing certain state updates while the daemon is running. The bug is now...
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