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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39877"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-23T06:00:48.317Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:38:09.382Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39877"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39877.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39877"
title: "mm/damon/sysfs: fix use-after-free in state_show()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/sysfs: fix use-after-free in state_show()\n\nstate_show() reads kdamond-\u003edamon_ctx without holding damon_sysfs_lock. \nThis allows a use-after-free race:\n\nCPU 0                         CPU 1\n-----                         -----\nstate_show()                  damon_sysfs_turn_damon_on()\nctx = kdamond-\u003edamon_ctx;     mutex_lock(&damon_sysfs_lock);\n                              damon_destroy_ctx(kdamond-\u003edamon_ctx);\n                              kdamond-\u003edamon_ctx = NULL;\n                              mutex_unlock(&damon_sysfs_lock);\ndamon_is_running(ctx);        /* ctx is freed */\nmutex_lock(&ctx-\u003ekdamond_lock); /* UAF */\n\n(The race can also occur with damon_sysfs_kdamonds_rm_dirs() and\ndamon_sysfs_kdamond_release(), which free or replace the context under\ndamon_sysfs_lock.)\n\nFix by taking damon_sysfs_lock before dereferencing the context, mirroring\nthe locking used in pid_show().\n\nThe bug has existed since state_show() first accessed kdamond-\u003edamon_ctx."
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