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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43226" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:24.952Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:26:42.896Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-43226" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43226.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43226" title: "net/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/rds: No shortcut out of RDS_CONN_ERROR\n\nRDS connections carry a state \"rds_conn_path::cp_state\"\nand transitions from one state to another and are conditional\nupon an expected state: \"rds_conn_path_transition.\"\n\nThere is one exception to this conditionality, which is\n\"RDS_CONN_ERROR\" that can be enforced by \"rds_conn_path_drop\"\nregardless of what state the condition is currently in.\n\nBut as soon as a connection enters state \"RDS_CONN_ERROR\",\nthe connection handling code expects it to go through the\nshutdown-path.\n\nThe RDS/TCP multipath changes added a shortcut out of\n\"RDS_CONN_ERROR\" straight back to \"RDS_CONN_CONNECTING\"\nvia \"rds_tcp_accept_one_path\" (e.g. after \"rds_tcp_state_change\").\n\nA subsequent \"rds_tcp_reset_callbacks\" can then transition\nthe state to \"RDS_CONN_RESETTING\" with a shutdown-worker queued.\n\nThat'll trip up \"rds_conn_init_shutdown\", which was\nnever adjusted to handle \"RDS_CONN_RESETTING\" and subsequently\ndrops the connection with the dreaded \"DR_INV_CONN_STATE\",\nwhich leaves \"RDS_SHUTDOWN_WORK_QUEUED\" on forever.\n\nSo we do two things here:\n\na) Don't shortcut \"RDS_CONN_ERROR\", but take the longer\n path through the shutdown code.\n\nb) Add \"RDS_CONN_RESETTING\" to the expected states in\n \"rds_conn_init_shutdown\" so that we won't error out\n and get stuck, if we ever hit weird state transitions\n like this again.\"" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bcd7c00691a2db9745817d5ea79262a503b135c"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a179ac7be8f5a650d0068040705f4cddd6ca369c"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"19e384a7d00d888303a8285977cdf1970c6cccd6"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0f729bdffb08af32e0f54521b81b8a9e0321f16"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81248b1eb3c5954cc1fc7b33b7c03e34d20cb8c8"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"899ef00963ce76f9fc421a7d02335fe4ead6389b"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ff599a9be784a808c36765086e3db2144aa3b66"},{"version":"5916e2c1554f3e36f770401c989c3c7fadf619ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad22d24be635c6beab6a1fdd3f8b1f3c478d15da"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"5.10.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","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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