# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23044"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:00:27.153Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:58:54.981Z"
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-2026-23044"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23044.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23044"
title: "PM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPM: hibernate: Fix crash when freeing invalid crypto compressor\n\nWhen crypto_alloc_acomp() fails, it returns an ERR_PTR value, not NULL.\n\nThe cleanup code in save_compressed_image() and load_compressed_image()\nunconditionally calls crypto_free_acomp() without checking for ERR_PTR,\nwhich causes crypto_acomp_tfm() to dereference an invalid pointer and\ncrash the kernel.\n\nThis can be triggered when the compression algorithm is unavailable\n(e.g., CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZO not enabled).\n\nFix by adding IS_ERR_OR_NULL() checks before calling crypto_free_acomp()\nand acomp_request_free(), similar to the existing kthread_stop() check.\n\n[ rjw: Added 2 empty code lines ]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b03d542c3c9569f549b1ba0cf7f4d90151fbf8ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7a883b0135dbc6817e90a829421c9fc8cd94bad"},{"version":"b03d542c3c9569f549b1ba0cf7f4d90151fbf8ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7966cf0ebe32c981bfa3db252cb5fc3bb1bf2e77"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.6","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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