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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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" 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-2026-43071" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43071.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43071" 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 \u003e\u003e 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 \u003e\u003e 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-\u003efirst // 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." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45b06bb5ea96f75ad81d7ef446f832ea6b0026fe"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"426ef05e82ee52c8d0e95fc0808b7383d8352d73"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddd57ebce245f9c7e2f6902a6c087d6186d2385d"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"755b40903eff563768d4d96fd4ef51ec48adde3b"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5718df131ab78897a9dd1f2e71c3ba732d4392af"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"277cedabb0ab86baae83fa58218be13c6d3e5526"},{"version":"99d263d4c5b2f541dfacb5391e22e8c91ea982a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f08fe8891c3eeb63b73f9f1f6d97aa629c821579"},{"version":"d4c96061fddd129778ce8b70fb093aa532f422d0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"be2378cbffe50ce0161f0fdee914adee98af53dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a8be8af18485f9fade90e1743d940252a39eec84","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b5cf3193759f7cd1cfbeef11f5cf067bbce22e55","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.10.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.11"},{"version":"3.12.29","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.13"},{"version":"3.14.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"3.16.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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