# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23032"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-31T11:42:11.640Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-02T13:00:53.339Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23032"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23032.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23032"
title: "null_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnull_blk: fix kmemleak by releasing references to fault configfs items\n\nWhen CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION is enabled, the null-blk\ndriver sets up fault injection support by creating the timeout_inject,\nrequeue_inject, and init_hctx_fault_inject configfs items as children\nof the top-level nullbX configfs group.\n\nHowever, when the nullbX device is removed, the references taken to\nthese fault-config configfs items are not released. As a result,\nkmemleak reports a memory leak, for example:\n\nunreferenced object 0xc00000021ff25c40 (size 32):\n  comm \"mkdir\", pid 10665, jiffies 4322121578\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    69 6e 69 74 5f 68 63 74 78 5f 66 61 75 6c 74 5f  init_hctx_fault_\n    69 6e 6a 65 63 74 00 88 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  inject..........\n  backtrace (crc 1a018c86):\n    __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x494/0xbd8\n    kvasprintf+0x74/0xf4\n    config_item_set_name+0xf0/0x104\n    config_group_init_type_name+0x48/0xfc\n    fault_config_init+0x48/0xf0\n    0xc0080000180559e4\n    configfs_mkdir+0x304/0x814\n    vfs_mkdir+0x49c/0x604\n    do_mkdirat+0x314/0x3d0\n    sys_mkdir+0xa0/0xd8\n    system_call_exception+0x1b0/0x4f0\n    system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n\nFix this by explicitly releasing the references to the fault-config\nconfigfs items when dropping the reference to the top-level nullbX\nconfigfs group."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a3286edf4d48ce37f8982ff3c3b65159a5ecbb2"},{"version":"bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d59ba448ccd595d5d65e197216cf781a87db2b28"},{"version":"bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1718da051282698aa8fa150bebb9724f6389fda"},{"version":"bb4c19e030f45c5416f1eb4daa94fbaf7165e9ea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40b94ec7edbbb867c4e26a1a43d2b898f04b93c5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.67","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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