# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43416"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:52.954Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:24:10.050Z"
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-2026-43416"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43416.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43416"
title: "powerpc, perf: Check that current-\u003emm is alive before getting user callchain"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc, perf: Check that current-\u003emm is alive before getting user callchain\n\nIt may happen that mm is already released, which leads to kernel panic.\nThis adds the NULL check for current-\u003emm, similarly to\ncommit 20afc60f892d (\"x86, perf: Check that current-\u003emm is alive before getting user callchain\").\n\nI was getting this panic when running a profiling BPF program\n(profile.py from bcc-tools):\n\n    [26215.051935] Kernel attempted to read user page (588) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)\n    [26215.051950] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000588\n    [26215.051952] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000020fac0\n    [26215.051957] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\n    [...]\n    [26215.052049] Call Trace:\n    [26215.052050] [c000000061da6d30] [c00000000020fc10] perf_callchain_user_64+0x2d0/0x490 (unreliable)\n    [26215.052054] [c000000061da6dc0] [c00000000020f92c] perf_callchain_user+0x1c/0x30\n    [26215.052057] [c000000061da6de0] [c0000000005ab2a0] get_perf_callchain+0x100/0x360\n    [26215.052063] [c000000061da6e70] [c000000000573bc8] bpf_get_stackid+0x88/0xf0\n    [26215.052067] [c000000061da6ea0] [c008000000042258] bpf_prog_16d4ab9ab662f669_do_perf_event+0xf8/0x274\n    [...]\n\nIn addition, move storing the top-level stack entry to generic\nperf_callchain_user to make sure the top-evel entry is always captured,\neven if current-\u003emm is NULL.\n\n[Maddy: fixed message to avoid checkpatch format style error]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"20002ded4d937ca87aca6253b874920a96a763c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98074e16742ae87fb82e234b419783c5ffc9baea"},{"version":"20002ded4d937ca87aca6253b874920a96a763c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e5f60b8cfc02a2b23a40a5f5fd2fa81d010e737"},{"version":"20002ded4d937ca87aca6253b874920a96a763c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9bbfb4bfa86c6b5515b868d6982ac60505d7e39"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.32"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","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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