CVE-2026-43463

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

08/05/2026

Last modified:

20/05/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc, afs: Fix missing error pointer check after rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() can also return error pointers in addition to NULL, so just checking for NULL is not sufficient. Fix this by: (1) Changing rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() to return -ENOMEM rather than NULL on allocation failure. (2) Making the callers in afs use IS_ERR() and PTR_ERR() to pass on the error code returned.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7.3 (including)	6.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.8 (including)	6.18.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.19 (including)	6.19.9 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2026-43463

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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