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CVE-2026-23044

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.14%
Risk score
2.2
Published
2026-02-04
Status
Published

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 ] A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's hibernation subsystem. When crypto_alloc_acomp() fails and returns an ERR_PTR value, the cleanup code in save_compressed_image() and load_compressed_image() unconditionally calls crypto_free_acomp() without checking for the error. This causes crypto_acomp_tfm() to dereference the invalid pointer, crashing the kernel during hibernation operations.

Weaknesses

CWE-390

Coverage 3

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