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CVE-2026-23064 Detail

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 syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Call Trace: <TASK> 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


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03710cebfc0bcfe247a9e04381e79ea33896e278 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1440d749fe49c8665da6f744323b1671d25a56a0 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27880b0b0d35ad1c98863d09788254e36f874968 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/374915dfc932adf57712df3be010667fd1190e3c kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ef2c77851676b7ed106f0c47755bee9eeec9a40 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c75fed55080014545f262b7055081cec4768b20 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd9442aedbeae87c44cc64c0ee41abd296dc008b kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-23064
NVD Published Date:
02/04/2026
NVD Last Modified:
02/06/2026
Source:
kernel.org