# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43013"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:18.907Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:16:00.983Z"
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-2026-43013"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43013.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43013"
title: "net/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: lag: Check for LAG device before creating debugfs\n\n__mlx5_lag_dev_add_mdev() may return 0 (success) even when an error\noccurs that is handled gracefully. Consequently, the initialization\nflow proceeds to call mlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() even when there is no\nvalid LAG context.\n\nmlx5_ldev_add_debugfs() blindly created the debugfs directory and\nattributes. This exposed interfaces (like the members file) that rely on\na valid ldev pointer, leading to potential NULL pointer dereferences if\naccessed when ldev is NULL.\n\nAdd a check to verify that mlx5_lag_dev(dev) returns a valid pointer\nbefore attempting to create the debugfs entries."
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