# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68165"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:33.152Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:30:37.581Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68165"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68165.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68165"
title: "mm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/core: validate ranges in damon_set_regions()\n\nDAMON core logic assumes zero length regions don't exist.  However, a few\nDAMON API callers including DAMON_SYSFS, DAMON_RECLAIM and DAMON_LRU_SORT\nallow users to set empty monitoring target regions.  This could result in\nWARN_ONCE() on CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY enabled kernel, and\ndivide-by-zero from damon_merge_two_regions().\n\nFor example, the WANR_ONCE() can be triggered like below.\n\n    # grep DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY /boot/config-$(uname -r)\n    # CONFIG_DAMON_DEBUG_SANITY=y\n    # damo start\n    # cd /sys/kernel/mm/damon/admin/kdamonds/0\n    # echo 0 \u003e contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/start\n    # echo 0 \u003e contexts/0/targets/0/regions/0/end\n    # echo commit \u003e state\n    # dmesg\n    [....]\n    [   73.705780] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n    [   73.707552] start 0 \u003e= end 0\n    [   73.708452] WARNING: mm/damon/core.c:359 at damon_new_region+0x6e/0x80, CPU#1: kdamond.0/758\n    [...]\n\nAll DAMON API callers eventually use damon_set_regions() to setup the\nregions.  Add the validation logic in the function."
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