CVE-2026-23123 (GCVE-0-2026-23123)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-14 15:09 – Updated: 2026-02-14 15:09
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Title
interconnect: debugfs: initialize src_node and dst_node to empty strings
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: interconnect: debugfs: initialize src_node and dst_node to empty strings The debugfs_create_str() API assumes that the string pointer is either NULL or points to valid kmalloc() memory. Leaving the pointer uninitialized can cause problems. Initialize src_node and dst_node to empty strings before creating the debugfs entries to guarantee that reads and writes are safe.
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Linux Linux Affected: 770c69f037c18cfaa37c3d6c6ef8bd257635513f , < aa79a5a959c7c414bd6fba01ea8dbaddd44f13e7 (git)
Affected: 770c69f037c18cfaa37c3d6c6ef8bd257635513f , < 935d0938b570589c8b0a1733d2cba3c39d027f25 (git)
Affected: 770c69f037c18cfaa37c3d6c6ef8bd257635513f , < 5d7c7e1fb3ec24fdd0f9faa27b666d6789e891e8 (git)
Affected: 770c69f037c18cfaa37c3d6c6ef8bd257635513f , < 8cc27f5c6dd17dd090f3a696683f04336c162ff5 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.68 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.8 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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