# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43011"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:17.597Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:09.316Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43011"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43011.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43011"
title: "net/x25: Fix potential double free of skb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/x25: Fix potential double free of skb\n\nWhen alloc_skb fails in x25_queue_rx_frame it calls kfree_skb(skb) at\nline 48 and returns 1 (error).\nThis error propagates back through the call chain:\n\nx25_queue_rx_frame returns 1\n    |\n    v\nx25_state3_machine receives the return value 1 and takes the else\nbranch at line 278, setting queued=0 and returning 0\n    |\n    v\nx25_process_rx_frame returns queued=0\n    |\n    v\nx25_backlog_rcv at line 452 sees queued=0 and calls kfree_skb(skb)\nagain\n\nThis would free the same skb twice. Looking at x25_backlog_rcv:\n\nnet/x25/x25_in.c:x25_backlog_rcv() {\n    ...\n    queued = x25_process_rx_frame(sk, skb);\n    ...\n    if (!queued)\n        kfree_skb(skb);\n}"
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