CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43457
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- 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-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mctp: i2c: fix skb memory leak in receive path
When 'midev->allow_rx' is false, the newly allocated skb isn't consumed
by netif_rx(), it needs to free the skb directly.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.9)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb2adbdd5c03e8c9ebcdc48afd414b2724c85eb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b1be322342a6b0085bf6ee52235e5ac9834ec25 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ec54187e1aa40a4cfa2b265e9a311179f24b98d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f81be2ab9d8e4744871bfb3e868ef413413829f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7900a43b0a314a645ca0a2adf45928dbc7001f4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3f5e0f22cfc2371e7471c9fd5b4da78f9df7c69 Patch