{"id":"CVE-2026-43411","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-43411","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T08:28:05.012Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect() A user can set conn_timeout to any value via setsockopt(TIPC_CONN_TIMEOUT), including values less than 4.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntipc: fix divide-by-zero in tipc_sk_filter_connect()\n\nA user can set conn_timeout to any value via\nsetsockopt(TIPC_CONN_TIMEOUT), including values less than 4.  When a\nSYN is rejected with TIPC_ERR_OVERLOAD and the retry path in\ntipc_sk_filter_connect() executes:\n\n    delay %= (tsk->conn_timeout / 4);\n\nIf conn_timeout is in the range [0, 3], the integer division yields 0,\nand the modulo operation triggers a divide-by-zero exception, causing a\nkernel oops/panic.\n\nFix this by clamping conn_timeout to a minimum of 4 at the point of use\nin tipc_sk_filter_connect().\n\nOops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 119 Comm: poc-F144 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2+\nRIP: 0010:tipc_sk_filter_rcv (net/tipc/socket.c:2236 net/tipc/socket.c:2362)\nCall Trace:\n tipc_sk_backlog_rcv (include/linux/instrumented.h:82 include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 include/net/sock.h:2357 net/tipc/socket.c:2406)\n __release_sock (include/net/sock.h:1185 net/core/sock.c:3213)\n release_sock (net/core/sock.c:3797)\n tipc_connect (net/tipc/socket.c:2570)\n __sys_connect (include/linux/file.h:62 include/linux/file.h:83 net/socket.c:2098)","published":"2026-05-08T15:16:53.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:49:33.000Z","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":["CWE-369"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00123,"percentile":0.02021,"date":"2026-10-27","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/2754e7b3d64748643df867d1ea6fec522914b635","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/338c5edeb6ae3f12a4b84dff9d71f6f7f8c202c3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bc9998041076ee05d3f312a22cee6b2ca35527f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/579956f9f297eb1b6a5d24de313f3acccee1f9d5","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/600feb0a66a98c6b7f6f02b5f3612e75f9b8540f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c5a9baa15de240e747263aba435a0951da8d8d2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a360d3815aae1f00dd71b7714a846482e85cc1f7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ebfbe63deb7bfd4dc2532bae62a7ed67713272","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43411","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."}