Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23055)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23055). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.67, 6.18.7 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: riic: Move suspend handling to NOIRQ phase
Commit 53326135d0e0 ("i2c: riic: Add suspend/resume support") added
suspend support for the Renesas I2C driver and following this change
on RZ/G3E the following WARNING is seen on entering suspend ...
[ 134.275704] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 134.285536] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 134.290298] i2c i2c-2: Transfer while suspended
[ 134.295174] WARNING: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h:56 at __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214, CPU#0: systemd-sleep/388
[ 134.365507] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 134.368485] Hardware name: Renesas SMARC EVK version 2 based on r9a09g047e57 (DT)
[ 134.375961] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 134.382935] pc : __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214
[ 134.387329] lr : __i2c_smbus_xfer+0x1e4/0x214
[ 134.391717] sp : ffff800083f23860
[ 134.395040] x29: ffff800083f23860 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800082ed5d60
[ 134.402226] x26: 0000001f4395fd74 x25: 0000000000000007 x24: 0000000000000001
[ 134.409408] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 000000000000006f x21: ffff800083f23936
[ 134.416589] x20: ffff0000c090e140 x19: ffff0000c090e0d0 x18: 0000000000000006
[ 134.423771] x17: 6f63657320313030 x16: 2e30206465737061 x15: ffff800083f23280
[ 134.430953] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff800082b16ce8 x12: 0000000000000f09
[ 134.438134] x11: 0000000000000503 x10: ffff800082b6ece8 x9 : fff…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23055 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.67, 6.18.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23055" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-23055 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.67, 6.18.7 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.12.67, 6.18.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.12.67, 6.18.7ステージング環境で 6.12.67, 6.18.7 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23055 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.73-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23055 linux Fixed in: 6.12.69-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23055 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org