medium 5.5

CVE-2026-23128 json

arm64: Set __nocfi on swsusp_arch_resume()

published 2026-02-14 8 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2026-6114

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits: 0; none known

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

A DABT is reported[1] on an android based system when resume from hiberate. This happens because swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() is marked with SYM_CODE_*() and does not have a CFI hash, but swsusp_arch_resume() will attempt to verify the CFI hash when calling a copy of swsusp_arch_suspend_exit().

Given that there's an existing requirement that the entrypoint to swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() is the first byte of the .hibernate_exit.text section, we cannot fix this by marking swsusp_arch_suspend_exit() with SYM_FUNC_*(). The simplest fix for now is to disable the CFI check in swsusp_arch_resume().

Mark swsusp_arch_resume() as __nocfi to disable the CFI check.

[1] [ 22.991934][ T1] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000109170ffc [ 22.991934][ T1] Mem abort info: [ 22.991934][ T1] ESR = 0x0000000096000007 [ 22.991934][ T1] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 22.991934][ T1] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 22.991934][ T1] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 22.991934][ T1] FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault [ 22.991934][ T1] Data abort info: [ 22.991934][ T1] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000007, ISS2 = 0x00000000 [ 22.991934][ T1] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 [ 22.991934][ T1] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 [ 22.991934][ T1] [0000000109170ffc] user address but active_mm is swapper [ 22.991934][ T1] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 22.991934][ T1] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 22.991934][ T1] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 22.991934][ T1] Modules linked in: [ 22.991934][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.6.98-android15-8-g0b1d2aee7fc3-dirty-4k #1 688c7060a825a3ac418fe53881730b355915a419 [ 22.991934][ T1] Hardware name: Unisoc UMS9360-base Board (DT) [ 22.991934][ T1] pstate: 804000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 22.991934][ T1] pc : swsusp_arch_resume+0x2ac/0x344 [ 22.991934][ T1] lr : swsusp_arch_resume+0x294/0x344 [ 22.991934][ T1] sp : ffffffc08006b960 [ 22.991934][ T1] x29: ffffffc08006b9c0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 22.991934][ T1] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000820 [ 22.991934][ T1] x23: ffffffd0817e3000 x22: ffffffd0817e3000 x21: 0000000000000000 [ 22.991934][ T1] x20: ffffff8089171000 x19: ffffffd08252c8c8 x18: ffffffc080061058 [ 22.991934][ T1] x17: 00000000529c6ef0 x16: 00000000529c6ef0 x15: 0000000000000004 [ 22.991934][ T1] x14: ffffff8178c88000 x13: 0000000000000006 x12: 0000000000000000 [ 22.991934][ T1] x11: 0000000000000015 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffffd082533000 [ 22.991934][ T1] x8 : 0000000109171000 x7 : 205b5d3433393139 x6 : 392e32322020205b [ 22.991934][ T1] x5 : 000000010916f000 x4 : 000000008164b000 x3 : ffffff808a4e0530 [ 22.991934][ T1] x2 : ffffffd08058e784 x1 : 0000000082326000 x0 : 000000010a283000 [ 22.991934][ T1] Call trace: [ 22.991934][ T1] swsusp_arch_resume+0x2ac/0x344 [ 22.991934][ T1] hibernation_restore+0x158/0x18c [ 22.991934][ T1] load_image_and_restore+0xb0/0xec [ 22.991934][ T1] software_resume+0xf4/0x19c [ 22.991934][ T1] software_resume_initcall+0x34/0x78 [ 22.991934][ T1] do_one_initcall+0xe8/0x370 [ 22.991934][ T1] do_initcall_level+0xc8/0x19c [ 22.991934][ T1] do_initcalls+0x70/0xc0 [ 22.991934][ T1] do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28 [ 22.991934][ T1] kernel_init_freeable+0xe0/0x148 [ 22.991934][ T1] kernel_init+0x20/0x1a8 [ 22.991934][ T1] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 22.991934][ T1] Code: a9400a61 f94013e0 f9438923 f9400a64 (b85fc110)

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log updated by Mark Rutland]

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4 links 5

Linux Linux 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.68, 6.18.8, 6.19

debian ubuntu suse opensuse

linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
linux Debian 13 6.12.69-1
linux Debian 14 6.18.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23128

linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-117.117
linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1055.58
linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1058.61
linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.60
linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1055.56
linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1056.62
linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1041.44
linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1056.60

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23128

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

kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1
kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1
kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1
kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1
kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1
kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.53.1.159998.21.38
podman Linux Micro 6.2 5.4.2-160000.6.1
kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.34.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24316-1 SUSE-SU-2026:24315-1 SUSE-SU-2026:24181-1 SUSE-SU-2026:24182-1 SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1 SUSE-SU-2026:20873-1

kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1
kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.27.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-23128 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 5.5

kernel: arm64: Set __nocfi on swsusp_arch_resume()

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
affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 4 mo ago (2026-06-10)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-23128
NVD CVE-2026-23128

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Summary