CVE-2026-43346 ice: ptp: don't WARN when controlling PF is unavailable

What is CVE-2026-43346?

CVE-2026-43346 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: ptp: don't WARN when controlling PF is unavailable

In VFIO passthrough setups, it is possible to pass through only a PF which doesn't own the source timer. In that case the PTP controlling PF (adapter->ctrl_pf) is never initialized in the VM, so ice_get_ctrl_ptp() returns NULL and triggers WARN_ON() in ice_ptp_setup_pf().

Since this is an expected behavior in that configuration, replace WARN_ON() with an informational message and return -EOPNOTSUPP.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43346?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-43346?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-43346 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43346 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-43346, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43346, GHSA-274m-pqm8-j3hc, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2026-43346, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43346.