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Unscored CVE-2026-23183 EUVD-2026-5857GHSA-q6cr-hchj-9qvc

cgroup/dmem: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting max

Published Feb 14, 2026 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

cgroup/dmem: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting max

An issue was triggered:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 658 Comm: bash Tainted: 6.19.0-rc6-next-2026012
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
RIP: 0010:strcmp+0x10/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffffc900017f7dc0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888107cd4358
RDX: 0000000019f73907 RSI: ffffffff82cc381a RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff8881016bef0d R08: 000000006c0e7145 R09: 0000000056c0e714
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff888107cd4358 R12: 0007ffffffffffff
R13: ffff888101399200 R14: ffff888100fcb360 R15: 0007ffffffffffff
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000105c79000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dmemcg_limit_write.constprop.0+0x16d/0x390
? __pfx_set_resource_max+0x10/0x10
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x14e/0x200
vfs_write+0x367/0x510
ksys_write+0x66/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x390
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f42697e1887

It was trriggered setting max without limitation, the command is like:
"echo test/region0 > dmem.max". To fix this issue, add check whether
options is valid after parsing the region_name.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.14 6.18.10

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.18.10-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —

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