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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43309" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:11:27.595Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:34.118Z" 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-2026-43309" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43309.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43309" title: "md raid: fix hang when stopping arrays with metadata through dm-raid" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd raid: fix hang when stopping arrays with metadata through dm-raid\n\nWhen using device-mapper's dm-raid target, stopping a RAID array can cause\nthe system to hang under specific conditions.\n\nThis occurs when:\n\n- A dm-raid managed device tree is suspended from top to bottom\n (the top-level RAID device is suspended first, followed by its\n underlying metadata and data devices)\n\n- The top-level RAID device is then removed\n\nRemoving the top-level device triggers a hang in the following sequence:\nthe dm-raid destructor calls md_stop(), which tries to flush the\nwrite-intent bitmap by writing to the metadata sub-devices. However, these\ndevices are already suspended, making them unable to complete the write-intent\noperations and causing an indefinite block.\n\nFix:\n\n- Prevent bitmap flushing when md_stop() is called from dm-raid\ndestructor context\n and avoid a quiescing/unquescing cycle which could also cause I/O\n\n- Still allow write-intent bitmap flushing when called from dm-raid\nsuspend context\n\nThis ensures that RAID array teardown can complete successfully even when the\nunderlying devices are in a suspended state.\n\nThis second patch uses md_is_rdwr() to distinguish between suspend and\ndestructor paths as elaborated on above." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0dd84b319352bb8ba64752d4e45396d8b13e6018","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"63054027d95200b04f3cf624faa7817e0555d56a"},{"version":"0dd84b319352bb8ba64752d4e45396d8b13e6018","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24783dd06de870d646c25207bae186f78195f912"},{"version":"0dd84b319352bb8ba64752d4e45396d8b13e6018","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"338378dfffbdbb8d37a18f0a0c0358812671f91e"},{"version":"0dd84b319352bb8ba64752d4e45396d8b13e6018","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cefcb9297fbdb6d94b61787b4f8d84f55b741470"},{"version":"1678ca35b80a94d474fdc31e2497ce5d7ed52512","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"690b5c90fd2d81fd1d2b6110fa36783232f6dce2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8e7fb19f1a744fd34e982633ced756fee0498ef7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a5a58fab556bfe618b4c9719eb85712d78c6cb10","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"661c01b2181d9413c799127f13143583b69f20fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"f42a9819ba84bed2e609a4dff56af37063dcabdc","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.292","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.257","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.212","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.140","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.64","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.19.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"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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