# 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-2026-43428"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:01.027Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:24:24.020Z"
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-2026-43428"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43428.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43428"
title: "USB: core: Limit the length of unkillable synchronous timeouts"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: core: Limit the length of unkillable synchronous timeouts\n\nThe usb_control_msg(), usb_bulk_msg(), and usb_interrupt_msg() APIs in\nusbcore allow unlimited timeout durations.  And since they use\nuninterruptible waits, this leaves open the possibility of hanging a\ntask for an indefinitely long time, with no way to kill it short of\nunplugging the target device.\n\nTo prevent this sort of problem, enforce a maximum limit on the length\nof these unkillable timeouts.  The limit chosen here, somewhat\narbitrarily, is 60 seconds.  On many systems (although not all) this\nis short enough to avoid triggering the kernel's hung-task detector.\n\nIn addition, clear up the ambiguity of negative timeout values by\ntreating them the same as 0, i.e., using the maximum allowed timeout."
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