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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2026-43071",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43071",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-05T15:29:28.081Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T19:06:12.548Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z",
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      "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"
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      "title": "dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two\n\nThere is an OOB read problem on dentry_hashtable when user sets\n'dhash_entries=1':\n  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888b30b774b0\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n  RIP: 0010:__d_lookup+0x56/0x120\n   Call Trace:\n    d_lookup.cold+0x16/0x5d\n    lookup_dcache+0x27/0xf0\n    lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x2a/0x180\n    start_dirop+0x55/0xa0\n    simple_start_creating+0x8d/0xa0\n    debugfs_start_creating+0x8c/0x180\n    debugfs_create_dir+0x1d/0x1c0\n    pinctrl_init+0x6d/0x140\n    do_one_initcall+0x6d/0x3d0\n    kernel_init_freeable+0x39f/0x460\n    kernel_init+0x2a/0x260\n\nThere will be only one bucket in dentry_hashtable when dhash_entries is\nset as one, and d_hash_shift is calculated as 32 by dcache_init(). Then,\nfollowing process will access more than one buckets(which memory region\nis not allocated) in dentry_hashtable:\n d_lookup\n  b = d_hash(hash)\n    dentry_hashtable + ((u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift)\n    // The C standard defines the behavior of right shift amounts\n    // exceeding the bit width of the operand as undefined. The\n    // result of '(u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift' becomes 'hashlen',\n    // so 'b' will point to an unallocated memory region.\n  hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu(b)\n   hlist_bl_first_rcu(head)\n    h->first  // read OOB!\n\nFix it by limiting the minimal number of dentry_hashtable bucket to two,\nso that 'd_hash_shift' won't exceeds the bit width of type u32.",
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