# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23183"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-14T16:27:13.482Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:01:55.689Z"
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-2026-23183"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23183.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23183"
title: "cgroup/dmem: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting max"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup/dmem: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting max\n\nAn issue was triggered:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 658 Comm: bash Tainted: 6.19.0-rc6-next-2026012\n Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\n RIP: 0010:strcmp+0x10/0x30\n RSP: 0018:ffffc900017f7dc0 EFLAGS: 00000246\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888107cd4358\n RDX: 0000000019f73907 RSI: ffffffff82cc381a RDI: 0000000000000000\n RBP: ffff8881016bef0d R08: 000000006c0e7145 R09: 0000000056c0e714\n R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff888107cd4358 R12: 0007ffffffffffff\n R13: ffff888101399200 R14: ffff888100fcb360 R15: 0007ffffffffffff\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000105c79000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  dmemcg_limit_write.constprop.0+0x16d/0x390\n  ? __pfx_set_resource_max+0x10/0x10\n  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x14e/0x200\n  vfs_write+0x367/0x510\n  ksys_write+0x66/0xe0\n  do_syscall_64+0x6b/0x390\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n RIP: 0033:0x7f42697e1887\n\nIt was trriggered setting max without limitation, the command is like:\n\"echo test/region0 \u003e dmem.max\". To fix this issue, add check whether\noptions is valid after parsing the region_name."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b168ed458ddecc176f3b9a1f4bcd83d7a4541c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c13816e8fa23deec6a8d7465d9e637fd02683b5c"},{"version":"b168ed458ddecc176f3b9a1f4bcd83d7a4541c14","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43151f812886be1855d2cba059f9c93e4729460b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.18.10","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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