# 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-2026-43055"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:48.139Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:11.626Z"
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-2026-43055"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43055.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43055"
title: "scsi: target: file: Use kzalloc_flex for aio_cmd"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: file: Use kzalloc_flex for aio_cmd\n\nThe target_core_file doesn't initialize the aio_cmd-\u003eiocb for the\nki_write_stream. When a write command fd_execute_rw_aio() is executed,\nwe may get a bogus ki_write_stream value, causing unintended write\nfailure status when checking iocb-\u003eki_write_stream \u003e max_write_streams\nin the block device.\n\nLet's just use kzalloc_flex when allocating the aio_cmd and let\nki_write_stream=0 to fix this issue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"732f25a2895a8c1c54fb56544f0b1e23770ef4d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce54802fe6bb78eb0feffc66fed6a45d41ffc3ab"},{"version":"732f25a2895a8c1c54fb56544f0b1e23770ef4d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4eaff1728d0e69b95933412241bbccf4f797dba8"},{"version":"732f25a2895a8c1c54fb56544f0b1e23770ef4d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01f784fc9d0ab2a6dac45ee443620e517cb2a19b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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