# 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-2026-43373"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:23.875Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:27:33.592Z"
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-2026-43373"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43373.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43373"
title: "net: ncsi: fix skb leak in error paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ncsi: fix skb leak in error paths\n\nEarly return paths in NCSI RX and AEN handlers fail to release\nthe received skb, resulting in a memory leak.\n\nSpecifically, ncsi_aen_handler() returns on invalid AEN packets\nwithout consuming the skb. Similarly, ncsi_rcv_rsp() exits early\nwhen failing to resolve the NCSI device, response handler, or\nrequest, leaving the skb unfreed."
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