# 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-2026-43383"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:30.704Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:28.193Z"
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-2026-43383"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43383.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43383"
title: "net/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time\n\nTo prevent timing attacks, MACs need to be compared in constant\ntime.  Use the appropriate helper function for this."
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