{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72178 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72178 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72178 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72178 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72178 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72178/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72178/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72178","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72178/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72178","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72178","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72178","GHSA-g93q-9jrc-mrwv","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72178"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel DAMON subsystem can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when specific commit operations fail.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids\n\ndamon_commit_target() puts and gets the destination and the source target\npids.  It puts the destination target pid because it will be overwritten\nby the source target pid.  It gets the source pid because the caller is\nsupposed to eventually put the pids.  In more detail, the caller will call\ndamon_destroy_ctx() after damon_commit_ctx() to destroy the entire source\ncontext.  And in this case, [f]vaddr operation set's cleanup_target()\ncallback will put the pids.\n\nThe commit operation is made at the context level.  The operation can fail\nin multiple places including in the middle and after the targets commit\noperations.  For any such failures, immediately the error is returned to\nthe damon_commit_ctx() caller.  If some or all of the source target pids\nwere committed to the destination during the unsuccessful context commit\nattempt, those pids should be put twice.\n\nThe source context will do the put operations using the above explained\nroutine.  However, let's suppose the destination context was not\noriginally using [f]vaddr operation set and the commit failed before the\nops of the source context is committed.  The destination does not have the\ncleanup_target() ops callback, so it cannot put the pids via the\ndamon_destroy_ctx().\n\nAs a result, the pids are leaked.  The issue in the real world would be\nnot very common.  The commit feature is for changing parameters of running\nDAMON context while inheriting internal status like the monitoring\nresults.  The monitoring results of a physical address range ain't have\nthings that are beneficial to be inherited to a virtual address ranges\nmonitoring.  So the problem-causing DAMON control would be not very common\nin the real world.  That said, it is a supported feature.  And\ndamon_commit_target() failure due to memory allocation is relatively\nrealistic [1] if there are a huge number of target regions.\n\nFix by putting the pids in the commit operation in case of the failures.\n\nThe issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids","id":"CVE-2026-72178","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"riscv: cacheinfo: Fix node reference leak in populate_cache_leaves","id":"CVE-2026-72179"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix dir put orders in access_pattern_add_dirs()","id":"CVE-2026-72177"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel DAMON subsystem can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when specific commit operations fail.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72178/"}