# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43333"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:31:20.107Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:06:46.060Z"
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-2026-43333"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43333.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43333"
title: "bpf: reject direct access to nullable PTR_TO_BUF pointers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: reject direct access to nullable PTR_TO_BUF pointers\n\ncheck_mem_access() matches PTR_TO_BUF via base_type() which strips\nPTR_MAYBE_NULL, allowing direct dereference without a null check.\n\nMap iterator ctx-\u003ekey and ctx-\u003evalue are PTR_TO_BUF | PTR_MAYBE_NULL.\nOn stop callbacks these are NULL, causing a kernel NULL dereference.\n\nAdd a type_may_be_null() guard to the PTR_TO_BUF branch, matching the\nexisting PTR_TO_BTF_ID pattern."
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