{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43043 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-43043 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43043 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-43043 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43043 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43043/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43043/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-43043","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43043/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-43043","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-43043","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43043","GHSA-87mg-5j2r-6p32","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-43043","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-43043","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-43043","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43043"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic via a specific sequence of sendmsg calls in the AF_ALG interface, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk\n\nThe AF_ALG interface fails to unmark the end of a Scatter/Gather List (SGL)\nwhen chaining a new af_alg_tsgl structure. If a sendmsg() fills an SGL\nexactly to MAX_SGL_ENTS, the last entry is marked as the end. A subsequent\nsendmsg() allocates a new SGL and chains it, but fails to clear the end\nmarker on the previous SGL's last data entry.\n\nThis causes the crypto scatterwalk to hit a premature end, returning NULL\non sg_next() and leading to a kernel panic during dereference.\n\nFix this by explicitly unmarking the end of the previous SGL when\nperforming sg_chain() in af_alg_alloc_tsgl().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"crypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk","id":"CVE-2026-43043","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"crypto: caam - fix DMA corruption on long hmac keys","id":"CVE-2026-43044"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"mpls: add seqcount to protect the platform_label{,s} pair","id":"CVE-2026-43042"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-05-01","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic via a specific sequence of sendmsg calls in the AF_ALG interface, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43043/"}