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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43094" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T07:40:25.930Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:19:06.481Z" 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-2026-43094" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43094.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43094" title: "ixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nixgbevf: add missing negotiate_features op to Hyper-V ops table\n\nCommit a7075f501bd3 (\"ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by\nnegotiating supported features\") added the .negotiate_features callback\nto ixgbe_mac_operations and populated it in ixgbevf_mac_ops, but forgot\nto add it to ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. This leaves the function pointer NULL\non Hyper-V VMs.\n\nDuring probe, ixgbevf_negotiate_api() calls ixgbevf_set_features(),\nwhich unconditionally dereferences hw-\u003emac.ops.negotiate_features().\nOn Hyper-V this results in a NULL pointer dereference:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n [...]\n Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine [...]\n Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn\n RIP: 0010:0x0\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n ixgbevf_negotiate_api+0x66/0x160 [ixgbevf]\n ixgbevf_sw_init+0xe4/0x1f0 [ixgbevf]\n ixgbevf_probe+0x20f/0x4a0 [ixgbevf]\n local_pci_probe+0x50/0xa0\n work_for_cpu_fn+0x1a/0x30\n [...]\n\nAdd ixgbevf_hv_negotiate_features_vf() that returns -EOPNOTSUPP and\nwire it into ixgbevf_hv_mac_ops. The caller already handles -EOPNOTSUPP\ngracefully." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"871ac1cd4ce4804defcb428cbb003fd84c415ff4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"376d74ea03589914fbe2dedcbebf418396c04fd0"},{"version":"2e0aab9ddaf1428602c78f12064cd1e6ffcc4d18","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d8a747057a17ffc79e31df1abb11d05e1669d8e5"},{"version":"bf580112ed61736c2645a893413a04732505d4b1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2270ebab53128fb73c4a70a292be09094074737f"},{"version":"a7075f501bd33c93570af759b6f4302ef0175168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4db7b61ec1d1b2b67c0881b62fc4f9583bc21484"},{"version":"a7075f501bd33c93570af759b6f4302ef0175168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1455ff8809843e6e83f1f5b5c0bcc2224c99a3cb"},{"version":"a7075f501bd33c93570af759b6f4302ef0175168","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4821d563cd7f251ae728be1a6d04af82a294a5b9"},{"version":"a376e29b1b196dc90b50df7e5e3947e3026300c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.158","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.175"},{"version":"6.6.114","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.136"},{"version":"6.12.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.83"},{"version":"6.17.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"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","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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