CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-43463

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-08 Modified 2026-10-21 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-05-08
Last modified
2026-10-21
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: 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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7.3 < 6.8) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.18.19) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.9) • linux linux kernel 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References