CVE-2026-43197

CRITICAL EPSS 36.7%
Published May 6, 20261mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
9.1 CVSS 3.1
Critical
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Published May 6, 2026 1mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated msg passed to netconsole from the console subsystem is not guaranteed to be nul-terminated. Before recent commit 7eab73b18630 ("netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure") the message would be placed in printk_shared_pbufs, a static global buffer, so KASAN had harder time catching OOB accesses. Now we see: printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594 CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9 Call Trace: kasan_report+0xe4/0x120 string+0x1f7/0x240 vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0 scnprintf+0xba/0x120 netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10 nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860 nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750 Allocated by task 1: nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450 register_console+0x26b/0xe10 init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, ffff88813b6d4c00)

CVSS Details

Base Score
9.1
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
5.2
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
36.7% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read Memory Safety

Affected Products 3

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.6  –  <6.18.16
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.19  –  <6.19.6
linuxlinux_kernel7.0any

References 3

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3126a2f98beaec5a554a1fb31c46db1e8542665e
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74ab1456eaa3b2eb986138f9e1f4cb37e73b6f58
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82aec772fca2223bc5774bd9af486fd95766e578
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3126a2f98beaec5a554a1fb31c46db1e8542665e
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74ab1456eaa3b2eb986138f9e1f4cb37e73b6f58
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82aec772fca2223bc5774bd9af486fd95766e578
    Patch