CVE-2026-23123: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6, before 6.6.122 (fixed in 6.6.122); from 6.7, before 6.12.68 (fixed in 6.12.68); from 6.13, before 6.18.8 (fixed in 6.18.8); version 6.19 only

Published 2026-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.