CVE-2026-23044

Linux Kernel 6.15-6.18.5 - Denial of Service via Invalid Crypto Compressor Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor When crypto_alloc_acomp() fails, it returns an ERR_PTR value, not NULL. The cleanup code in save_compressed_image() and load_compressed_image() unconditionally calls crypto_free_acomp() without checking for ERR_PTR, which causes crypto_acomp_tfm() to dereference an invalid pointer and crash the kernel. This can be triggered when the compression algorithm is unavailable (e.g., CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO not enabled). Fix by adding IS_ERR_OR_NULL() checks before calling crypto_free_acomp() and acomp_request_free(), similar to the existing kthread_stop() check. [ rjw: Added 2 empty code lines ]

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 8.2%

Details

Status published
Products (7)
linux/Kernel 6.15.0 - 6.18.6linux
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.18.6 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19
Linux/Linux b03d542c3c9569f549b1ba0cf7f4d90151fbf8ab - 7966cf0ebe32c981bfa3db252cb5fc3bb1bf2e77
Linux/Linux b03d542c3c9569f549b1ba0cf7f4d90151fbf8ab - b7a883b0135dbc6817e90a829421c9fc8cd94bad
Published Feb 04, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026