{"id":"CVE-2026-43099","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-43099","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:29:18.739Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe() ipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find() may return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT) when the IPv6 stack is not active (CONFIG_IPV6=m and not loaded), and…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe()\n\nipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find() may return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT) when the\nIPv6 stack is not active (CONFIG_IPV6=m and not loaded), and passing\nthis error pointer to dev_hold() will cause a kernel crash with\nnull-ptr-deref.\n\nInstead, silently discard the request. RFC 8335 does not appear to\ndefine a specific response for the case where an IPv6 interface\nidentifier is syntactically valid but the implementation cannot perform\nthe lookup at runtime, and silently dropping the request may safer than\nmisreporting \"No Such Interface\".","published":"2026-05-06T10:16:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-15T02:19:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00501,"percentile":0.42641,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f21bc261e60f0c696c58841c4873ff77ed83673","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47a8bf52156ac7e7a581eca31c1f964ba4258d4d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b9911582d441f72fe6ccb15ffe3303bbc07f6f5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6be325206850a0891896d38bcf83a09d8b54ec48","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc5db4db19766a61ad65d81d1f55b1c1e51ba78d","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f91b3ed9e7fa82a70511b5f6901c88379acf2964","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde29fd9349327acc50d19a0b5f3d5a6c964dfd8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43099","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}