CVE-2026-23144 mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure

What is CVE-2026-23144?

CVE-2026-23144 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23144?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-23144?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-23144 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23144 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-77685, BELL-CVE-2026-23144, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23144, GHSA-chwm-55mq-46m4, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23144, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23144.