# 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-2026-43074"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:21:58.210Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:12.716Z"
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-2026-43074"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43074.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43074"
title: "eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\neventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period\n\nIn certain situations, ep_free() in eventpoll.c will kfree the epi-\u003eep\neventpoll struct while it still being used by another concurrent thread.\nDefer the kfree() to an RCU callback to prevent UAF."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f2451def095c1743adcfcb0cb5dadc86034e162a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"902120be4f44947df6311002addc7faf69bdbff1"},{"version":"a1f93804449d13f97dabd4b996817de4bf1ed67a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6d57084372161f86660bc4607784420e00efe2c"},{"version":"58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6566cd33f6f967a7651ebf2ce0dd31572e319cf"},{"version":"58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b1173b165421561db29f30afc7e97d940a398a9"},{"version":"58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e8083f5eeedab0f460063b9c2c14c9a4e71a427"},{"version":"58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae0bb9c1fb7c2594519aeeb096cf2c3b7837b322"},{"version":"58c9b016e12855286370dfb704c08498edbc857a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07712db80857d5d09ae08f3df85a708ecfc3b61f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"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","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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