CVE-2026-23064: linux NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-23064 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 45 · Related 39Timeline
- 04-02-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref tcf_ife_encode() must make sure ife_encode() does not return NULL. syzbot reported: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] RIP: 0010:ife_tlv_meta_encode+0x41/0xa0 net/ife/ife.c:166 CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 8990 Comm: syz.0.696 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Call Trace: <TASK> ife_encode_meta_u32+0x153/0x180 net/sched/act_ife.c:101 tcf_ife_encode net/sched/act_ife.c:841 [inline] tcf_ife_act+0x1022/0x1de0 net/sched/act_ife.c:877 tc_act include/net/tc_wrapper.h:130 [inline] tcf_action_exec+0x1c0/0xa20 net/sched/act_api.c:1152 tcf_exts_exec include/net/pkt_cls.h:349 [inline] mall_classify+0x1a0/0x2a0 net/sched/cls_matchall.c:42 tc_classify include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 [inline] __tcf_classify net/sched/cls_api.c:1764 [inline] tcf_classify+0x7f2/0x1380 net/sched/cls_api.c:1860 multiq_classify net/sched/sch_multiq.c:39 [inline] multiq_enqueue+0xe0/0x510 net/sched/sch_multiq.c:66 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x45/0x250 net/core/dev.c:4147 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4262 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x2998/0x46c0 net/core/dev.c:4798
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.14%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
3%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.02 pp
From 0.13% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu155 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-176.186 | < 6.8.0-117.117
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1105.112 | < 6.8.0-1055.58
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 4ef2c77851676b7ed106f0c47755bee9eeec9a40 | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < dd9442aedbeae87c44cc64c0ee41abd296dc008b | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 1440d749fe49c8665da6f744323b1671d25a56a0 | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 03710cebfc0bcfe247a9e04381e79ea33896e278 | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 374915dfc932adf57712df3be010667fd1190e3c | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 6c75fed55080014545f262b7055081cec4768b20 | ≥ 295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c, < 27880b0b0d35ad1c98863d09788254e36f874968 | 4.11
- linux_kernel≥ 4.11, < 5.10.249 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.199 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.162 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.122 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.68 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.8 | 6.19:rc1 | 6.19:rc2 | 6.19:rc3 | 6.19:rc4 | 6.19:rc5 | 6.19:rc6
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.162-1 | < 6.12.69-1 | < 6.18.8-1
3 vendors · 158 products