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CVE-2026-23044 json

PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor

published 2026-02-04 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-5503

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cisa kev
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not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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 ]

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.18.6, 6.19
  • linux Debian 14 6.18.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23044

  • linux-gcp-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1021.24~24.04.1
  • linux-hwe-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-41.41~24.04.1
  • linux-oem-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1030.30
  • linux-azure-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1021.21~24.04.1
  • linux-nvidia-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1031.31
  • linux-oracle-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1019.19~24.04.3
  • linux-realtime-6.17 Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1018.20~24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23044

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-23044 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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