{"id":"CVE-2026-43351","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-43351","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:23:08.295Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Eagerly init vgic dist/redist on vgic creation If vgic_allocate_private_irqs_locked() fails for any odd reason, we exit kvm_vgic_create() early, leaving dist->rd_regions…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: arm64: Eagerly init vgic dist/redist on vgic creation\n\nIf vgic_allocate_private_irqs_locked() fails for any odd reason,\nwe exit kvm_vgic_create() early, leaving dist->rd_regions uninitialised.\n\nkvm_vgic_dist_destroy() then comes along and walks into the weeds\ntrying to free the RDs. Got to love this stuff.\n\nSolve it by moving all the static initialisation early, and make\nsure that if we fail halfway, we're in a reasonable shape to\nperform the rest of the teardown. While at it, reset the vgic model\non failure, just in case...","published":"2026-05-08T15:16:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:49:26.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00121,"percentile":0.01882,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a24f1d80fbcdbf8b2a7044a00fa12b3972b4c31c","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac6769c8f948dff33265c50e524aebf9aa6f1be0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7493f48c3dba75674a4ee505b4afa8fe5102457","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43351","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."}