CVE-2026-43272 (GCVE-0-2026-43272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:40
VLAI
Title
ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointer There is a pointer head_page in rb_meta_validate_events() which is not initialized at the beginning of a function. This pointer can be dereferenced if there is a failure during reader page validation. In this case the control is passed to "invalid" label where the pointer is dereferenced in a loop. To fix the issue initialize orig_head and head_page before calling rb_validate_buffer. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5f3b6e839f3ceb8d6ef02231ba9b5aca71b8bf55 , < a4afdff9c715af50cf6c3f2dc601932c2cea17a2 (git)
Affected: 5f3b6e839f3ceb8d6ef02231ba9b5aca71b8bf55 , < bc77986f3cb7476637052edf2d87137fa39f153d (git)
Affected: 5f3b6e839f3ceb8d6ef02231ba9b5aca71b8bf55 , < d9942396845fef2369478c157b26738fe07142f6 (git)
Affected: 5f3b6e839f3ceb8d6ef02231ba9b5aca71b8bf55 , < f1547779402c4cd67755c33616b7203baa88420b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.114 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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