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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43278" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:29:00.193Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:25.598Z" 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-2026-43278" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43278.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43278" title: "dm: clear cloned request bio pointer when last clone bio completes" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm: clear cloned request bio pointer when last clone bio completes\n\nStale rq-\u003ebio values have been observed to cause double-initialization of\ncloned bios in request-based device-mapper targets, leading to\nuse-after-free and double-free scenarios.\n\nOne such case occurs when using dm-multipath on top of a PCIe NVMe\nnamespace, where cloned request bios are freed during\nblk_complete_request(), but rq-\u003ebio is left intact. Subsequent clone\nteardown then attempts to free the same bios again via\nblk_rq_unprep_clone().\n\nThe resulting double-free path looks like:\n\n nvme_pci_complete_batch()\n nvme_complete_batch()\n blk_mq_end_request_batch()\n blk_complete_request() // called on a DM clone request\n bio_endio() // first free of all clone bios\n ...\n rq-\u003eend_io() // end_clone_request()\n dm_complete_request(tio-\u003eorig)\n dm_softirq_done()\n dm_done()\n dm_end_request()\n blk_rq_unprep_clone() // second free of clone bios\n\nFix this by clearing the clone request's bio pointer when the last cloned\nbio completes, ensuring that later teardown paths do not attempt to free\nalready-released bios." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d9ddad561136f7e6a9346767bf97b4d79e38e67"},{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7daf279c674d515fb22a727a7bbc92aeb35c5442"},{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2e738e8dfbbf83bd2bae0467ec4420cc52da42a"},{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1c1a2637ebd675aa2d71fee8c70da8791d73850"},{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"83d72091804600ead96dc9e9f518ea56cb4942f6"},{"version":"ab3e1d3bbab9e973aeb4dd4603251578658a47ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb8a6c18fb9a6561f7a15b58b272442b77a242dd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"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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