# 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-2026-23309"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:04.828Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:04:23.455Z"
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-2026-23309"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23309.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23309"
title: "tracing: Add NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Add NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free()\n\nIf trigger_data_alloc() fails and returns NULL, event_hist_trigger_parse()\njumps to the out_free error path. While kfree() safely handles a NULL\npointer, trigger_data_free() does not. This causes a NULL pointer\ndereference in trigger_data_free() when evaluating\ndata-\u003ecmd_ops-\u003eset_filter.\n\nFix the problem by adding a NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free().\n\nThe problem was found by an experimental code review agent based on\ngemini-3.1-pro while reviewing backports into v6.18.y."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c10f0efe57728508d796ae4ba7abe4c14ec3d8ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13dcd9269e225e4c4ceabdaeebe2ce4661b54c6e"},{"version":"7e6556e9329bc484e9dcdab6e346d959267c0636","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59c15b9cc453b74beb9f04c6c398717e73612dc3"},{"version":"9b0513905e0598b9f8cfccab8e47497aed5d935d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42b380f97d65e76e7b310facd525f730272daf57"},{"version":"335dfe4bc6368e70e8c15419375cf609c4f85558","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ce8ece5a78da67834db7728edc801889a64f643"},{"version":"e42efbe9754da78eafe11f6bd3ca9c8a094a752a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"477469223b2b840f436ce204333de87cb17e5d93"},{"version":"0550069cc25f513ce1f109c88f7c1f01d63297db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"457965c13f0837a289c9164b842d0860133f6274"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.167"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.130"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.77"},{"version":"6.18.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.17"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19.7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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