Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23022)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23022). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.18.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

idpf: fix memory leak in idpf_vc_core_deinit()

Make sure to free hw->lan_regs. Reported by kmemleak during reset:

unreferenced object 0xff1b913d02a936c0 (size 96):
comm "kworker/u258:14", pid 2174, jiffies 4294958305
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 c0 a8 ba 2d ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ......-.........
00 00 40 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 b3 a8 ba 2d ff ..@.......%...-.
backtrace (crc 36063c4f):
__kmalloc_noprof+0x48f/0x890
idpf_vc_core_init+0x6ce/0x9b0 [idpf]
idpf_vc_event_task+0x1fb/0x350 [idpf]
process_one_work+0x226/0x6d0
worker_thread+0x19e/0x340
kthread+0x10f/0x250
ret_from_fork+0x251/0x2b0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23022 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.18.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23022" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-23022 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.18.6 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.18.6.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 6.18.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.18.6 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.17.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23022 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23022 linux Fixed in: 6.18.8-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23022 linux-hwe-edge