CVE-2026-43473

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

08/05/2026

Last modified:

21/05/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Add NULL checks when resetting request and reply queues The driver encountered a crash during resource cleanup when the reply and request queues were NULL due to freed memory. This issue occurred when the creation of reply or request queues failed, and the driver freed the memory first, but attempted to mem set the content of the freed memory, leading to a system crash. Add NULL pointer checks for reply and request queues before accessing the reply/request memory during cleanup

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::::::::	5.17 (including)	6.1.167 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.130 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.78 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (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::::::

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CVE-2026-43473

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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