params: fix charp corruption on allocation failure (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89552
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: params: fix charp corruption on allocation failure param_set_charp() stores charp parameters in allocated memory after slab is available, and releases the previous value when the parameter is updated. The previous value is released before the replacement allocation succeeds. If kmalloc_parameter() fails, the setter returns -ENOMEM with the parameter left as NULL. Failing zswap's compressor update before zswap is initialized can later trigger: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0x10/0x30 Call Trace: zswap_setup+0x3b1/0x490 zswap_enabled_param_set+0x5b/0xa0 param_attr_store+0x93/0xe0 module_attr_store+0x1c/0x30 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x116/0x1f0 Allocate and copy the replacement first, then replace the parameter value only after allocation succeeds.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < 72835d539ed3eb4c4b85b85a3f3976c7bdc70b91 ; affected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < c7cc1edf3c0de948abcb3e4a44ee86a82403ce2f ; affected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < 32c1f305cfad192cd98468140beedeffe4792f53 ; affected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < 31b41ea8383d51992d6b0dfe3a99da1dec8ce1c1 ; affected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < 614f873268c5b172804c9af6639bd17b7e1e2359 ; affected e180a6b7759a99a28cbcce3547c4c80822cb6c2a < 704ecd010d4a9b33160e40b74eb402f6b86a18e0
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.30 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.30 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD