CVE-2026-43463CWE-476

CVE-2026-43463

Medium · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-05-08T19:16Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7.3, < 6.86.8
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.18.196.18.19
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.96.19.9
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 14:22Z
    rxrpc, afs: Fix missing error pointer check after rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer()
    cvelistv5