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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43234" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:30.212Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:21.028Z" 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-2026-43234" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43234.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43234" title: "team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nteam: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave\n\nsyzbot is reporting\n\n unregister_netdevice: waiting for netdevsim0 to become free. Usage count = 3\n ref_tracker: netdev@ffff88807dcf8618 has 1/2 users at\n __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4400 [inline]\n netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4429 [inline]\n inetdev_init+0x201/0x4e0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:286\n inetdev_event+0x251/0x1610 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1600\n notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85\n call_netdevice_notifiers_mtu net/core/dev.c:2318 [inline]\n netif_set_mtu_ext+0x5aa/0x800 net/core/dev.c:9886\n netif_set_mtu+0xd7/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:9907\n dev_set_mtu+0x126/0x260 net/core/dev_api.c:248\n team_port_del+0xb07/0xcb0 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1333\n team_del_slave drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1936 [inline]\n team_device_event+0x207/0x5b0 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2929\n notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85\n call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline]\n call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2295 [inline]\n __dev_change_net_namespace+0xcb7/0x2050 net/core/dev.c:12592\n do_setlink+0x2ce/0x4590 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3060\n rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3776 [inline]\n __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3935 [inline]\n rtnl_newlink+0x15a9/0x1be0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344\n netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894\n\nproblem. Ido Schimmel found steps to reproduce\n\n ip link add name team1 type team\n ip link add name dummy1 mtu 1499 master team1 type dummy\n ip netns add ns1\n ip link set dev dummy1 netns ns1\n ip -n ns1 link del dev dummy1\n\nand also found that the same issue was fixed in the bond driver in\ncommit f51048c3e07b (\"bonding: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when\nunregistering slave\").\n\nLet's do similar thing for the team driver, with commit ad7c7b2172c3 (\"net:\nhold netdev instance lock during sysfs operations\") and commit 303a8487a657\n(\"net: s/__dev_set_mtu/__netif_set_mtu/\") also applied." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cf0ef73991880dd89aa1feaf547ab13e4767b85"},{"version":"3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dde2fa2a658802d0ff03cd4a0e7d4a5459ef18de"},{"version":"3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bce42728ac4887060a24a585c5122fbd24939db7"},{"version":"3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5268892de70f0b29bde341db863b234aa9259c08"},{"version":"3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb4c698633c0e19717586a6524a33196cff01a32"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","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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