sysfs

A newly disclosed kernel flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-38258, allows an attacker with local write access to a DAMON sysfs control to repeatedly leak kernel memory by overwriting a filter’s cgroup path without freeing the previous buffer — a straightforward memory‑leak bug that has been fixed...

A recently assigned CVE, CVE-2025-38198, identifies a memory-safety bug in the Linux kernel's framebuffer console subsystem (fbcon) that can trigger an array-index-out-of-bounds error when the system processes writes to the fbcon store_modes sysfs node. The flaw is rooted in insufficient...

A newly assigned CVE has landed for the Linux kernel that zeroes in on a subtle sysfs ownership-check logic bug: CVE-2025-40355 addresses a condition where the kernel may attempt to change ownership of a sysfs group attribute that is not visible, triggering kernel WARN_ON traces and possible...