# 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-2026-43342"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:37:19.920Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:22:43.032Z"
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-2026-43342"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43342.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43342"
title: "usb: gadget: f_rndis: Protect RNDIS options with mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_rndis: Protect RNDIS options with mutex\n\nThe class/subclass/protocol options are suspectible to race conditions\nas they can be accessed concurrently through configfs.\n\nUse existing mutex to protect these options. This issue was identified\nduring code inspection."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a75d97c53477a59c0aa1c65f69038c719f9c5b8"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1b3d5b0acb194efe20fc5864ee03439fa7bd45c"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65b7dbf80a1627667c241fff7c1c224f3118014f"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb5316b37288ab8791584e32f114c4f41ad45b67"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d8fa3b8783ab95a46e20d97fbeeede719b2efda"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"446f1842cda929c40d4697722bfdcfb334bc9692"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"209decd3f7901df9842b83f2540dc8685e344a07"},{"version":"73517cf49bd449122b615d2b7a6bb835f02252e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d8c68b1fc06ece60cf43e1306ff0f4ac121547e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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