CVE-2026-23064

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw within the networking subsystem, specifically in the net/sched component related to the act ife functionality. The issue arises from a potential NULL dereference in the tcf ife encode() function if ife encode() returns NULL. This can lead to a general protection fault, as reported by the syzbot fuzzer. The vulnerability is located in the ife tlv meta encode function within the net/ife/ife.c file.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.