CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43013
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs
__mlx5_lag_dev_add_mdev() may return 0 (success) even when an error
occurs that is handled gracefully. Consequently, the initialization
flow proceeds to call mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() even when there is no
valid LAG context.
mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() blindly created the debugfs directory and
attributes. This exposed interfaces (like the members file) that rely on
a valid ldev pointer, leading to potential NULL pointer dereferences if
accessed when ldev is NULL.
Add a check to verify that mlx5_lag_dev(dev) returns a valid pointer
before attempting to create the debugfs entries.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.168)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.134)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.81)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.12)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7129632cab3e4d23510b21930aa73b8d97a859f5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89c65f2fcd8801365b410f40a427cbcd7f4c28e9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3db46d5f4df92630a96f7bc77b60e75c2353e06 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf16bca6653679d8a514d6c1c5a2c67065033f14 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c53cf44588a93000f71817a6bb87a66353c48dee Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfa774e6c920c81e700327bf10db8cb50d5db456 Patch