CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-64417

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Jul 25, 2026Sources checked Oct 21, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-64417 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-64417?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: shrinker: fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs

shrinker_debugfs_add() creates both "count" and "scan" debugfs files unconditionally.

That assumes every shrinker implements both count_objects() and scan_objects(), which is not guaranteed. For example, the xen-backend shrinker sets count_objects() but leaves scan_objects() NULL, so writing to its scan file calls through a NULL function pointer and panics the kernel:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:0x0 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6. Call Trace: <TASK> shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x12e/0x270 full_proxy_write+0x5f/0x90 vfs_write+0xde/0x420 ? filp_flush+0x75/0x90 ? filp_close+0x1d/0x30 ? do_dup2+0xb8/0x120 ksys_write+0x68/0xf0 ? filp_flush+0x75/0x90 do_syscall_64+0xb3/0x5b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The count path has the same issue in principle if a shrinker omits count_objects().

To fix it, only create "count" and "scan" debugfs files when the corresponding callbacks are present.

Source: NVD