{"id":"CVE-2026-23064","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23064","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:20:04.764Z","title":"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…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: act_ife: avoid possible NULL deref\n\ntcf_ife_encode() must make sure ife_encode() does not return NULL.\n\nsyzbot reported:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\n RIP: 0010:ife_tlv_meta_encode+0x41/0xa0 net/ife/ife.c:166\nCPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 8990 Comm: syz.0.696 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n  ife_encode_meta_u32+0x153/0x180 net/sched/act_ife.c:101\n  tcf_ife_encode net/sched/act_ife.c:841 [inline]\n  tcf_ife_act+0x1022/0x1de0 net/sched/act_ife.c:877\n  tc_act include/net/tc_wrapper.h:130 [inline]\n  tcf_action_exec+0x1c0/0xa20 net/sched/act_api.c:1152\n  tcf_exts_exec include/net/pkt_cls.h:349 [inline]\n  mall_classify+0x1a0/0x2a0 net/sched/cls_matchall.c:42\n  tc_classify include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 [inline]\n  __tcf_classify net/sched/cls_api.c:1764 [inline]\n  tcf_classify+0x7f2/0x1380 net/sched/cls_api.c:1860\n  multiq_classify net/sched/sch_multiq.c:39 [inline]\n  multiq_enqueue+0xe0/0x510 net/sched/sch_multiq.c:66\n  dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x45/0x250 net/core/dev.c:4147\n  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4262 [inline]\n  __dev_queue_xmit+0x2998/0x46c0 net/core/dev.c:4798","published":"2026-02-04T17:16:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:20:48.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00144,"percentile":0.03649,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.14%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03710cebfc0bcfe247a9e04381e79ea33896e278","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1440d749fe49c8665da6f744323b1671d25a56a0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27880b0b0d35ad1c98863d09788254e36f874968","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/374915dfc932adf57712df3be010667fd1190e3c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ef2c77851676b7ed106f0c47755bee9eeec9a40","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c75fed55080014545f262b7055081cec4768b20","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd9442aedbeae87c44cc64c0ee41abd296dc008b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23064","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}