Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23064)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23064). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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:

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

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23064 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23064" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-23064 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 — 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 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8.

🛡️ 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 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8 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":"4.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.249"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.199"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.162"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.122"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.68"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23064 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.163-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23064 linux Fixed in: 5.10.249-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23064 linux-azure