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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43086"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:40:20.631Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:17:27.288Z"
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-2026-43086"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43086.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43086"
title: "ipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipvs: fix NULL deref in ip_vs_add_service error path\n\nWhen ip_vs_bind_scheduler() succeeds in ip_vs_add_service(), the local\nvariable sched is set to NULL.  If ip_vs_start_estimator() subsequently\nfails, the out_err cleanup calls ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(svc, sched)\nwith sched == NULL.  ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() passes the cur_sched NULL\ncheck (because svc-\u003escheduler was set by the successful bind) but then\ndereferences the NULL sched parameter at sched-\u003edone_service, causing a\nkernel panic at offset 0x30 from NULL.\n\n Oops: general protection fault, [..] [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037]\n RIP: 0010:ip_vs_unbind_scheduler (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c:69)\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ip_vs_add_service.isra.0 (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:1500)\n  do_ip_vs_set_ctl (net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2809)\n  nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:102)\n  [..]\n\nFix by simply not clearing the local sched variable after a successful\nbind.  ip_vs_unbind_scheduler() already detects whether a scheduler is\ninstalled via svc-\u003escheduler, and keeping sched non-NULL ensures the\nerror path passes the correct pointer to both ip_vs_unbind_scheduler()\nand ip_vs_scheduler_put().\n\nWhile the bug is older, the problem popups in more recent kernels (6.2),\nwhen the new error path is taken after the ip_vs_start_estimator() call."
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