CVE-2026-23064

Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 4
Latest updateApr 9

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 syzk

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.115.10.249+6
CVEListV5linux/linux295a6e06d21e1f469c9f38b00125a13b60ad4e7c4ef2c77851676b7ed106f0c47755bee9eeec9a40+7
Debianlinux< 5.10.249-1+3
Debianlinux-6.1< 6.1.162-1~deb11u1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref2026-02-04
GHSA
GHSA-949x-gvhg-pggc: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref tcf_ife_encode() must make sure if2026-02-04
OSV
CVE-2026-23064: 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_2026-02-04

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (NVIDIA Tegra) vulnerabilities2026-04-09
Red Hat
kernel: net/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref2026-02-04
Debian
CVE-2026-23064: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: ...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-23064 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2026-23064 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.5) | In the Linux kernel | cvebase.io