CVE-2026-43055CWE-457

CVE-2026-43055

High · published May 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: target: file: Use kzalloc_flex for aio_cmd

The target_core_file doesn't initialize the aio_cmd->iocb for the

ki_write_stream. When a write command fd_execute_rw_aio() is executed,

we may get a bogus ki_write_stream value, causing unintended write

failure status when checking iocb->ki_write_stream > max_write_streams

in the block device.

Let's just use kzalloc_flex when allocating the aio_cmd and let

ki_write_stream=0 to fix this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00609 · 48.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-457 · Use of Uninitialized Variable
Published
2026-05-01T19:16Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.18.226.18.22
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.126.19.12
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:15Z
    scsi: target: file: Use kzalloc_flex for aio_cmd
    cvelistv5