{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43409 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-43409 is a medium-severity 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43409 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-43409 is a medium-severity 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43409 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-2026-43409/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43409/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-43409","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43409/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-43409","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-43409","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43409","GHSA-pfxc-r4m8-gw9p","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-43409","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-43409","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-43409","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-43409","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43409"],"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 null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel kprobes subsystem causes a system crash when removing modules after ftrace is killed.","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\nkprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed\n\nAfter we hit ftrace is killed by some errors, the kernel crash if\nwe remove modules in which kprobe probes.\n\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff805000d\nPGD 817fcc067 P4D 817fcc067 PUD 817fc8067 PMD 101555067 PTE 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 2012 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G        W  OE\nTainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\nRIP: 0010:kprobes_module_callback+0x89/0x790\nRSP: 0018:ffff88812e157d30 EFLAGS: 00010a02\nRAX: 1ffffffff805000d RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffffffff86a8de90\nRDX: ffffed1025c2af9b RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffc0280068\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1025c2af9a\nR10: ffff88812e157cd7 R11: 205d323130325420 R12: 0000000000000002\nR13: ffffffffc0290488 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffffffffc0280040\nFS:  00007fbc450dd740(0000) GS:ffff888420331000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: fffffbfff805000d CR3: 000000010f624000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n notifier_call_chain+0xc6/0x280\n blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x60/0x90\n __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x32a/0x4e0\n do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xfa0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nThis is because the kprobe on ftrace does not correctly handles\nthe kprobe_ftrace_disabled flag set by ftrace_kill().\n\nTo prevent this error, check kprobe_ftrace_disabled in\n__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and skip all ftrace related operations.","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":"kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed","id":"CVE-2026-43409","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":5,"next":{"headline":"firmware: stratix10-rsu: Fix NULL pointer dereference when RSU is disabled","id":"CVE-2026-43410"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ceph: add a bunch of missing ceph_path_info initializers","id":"CVE-2026-43408"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-05-08","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 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