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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43442"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:10.656Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:27:59.003Z"
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-2026-43442"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43442.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43442"
title: "io_uring: fix physical SQE bounds check for SQE_MIXED 128-byte ops"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fix physical SQE bounds check for SQE_MIXED 128-byte ops\n\nWhen IORING_SETUP_SQE_MIXED is used without IORING_SETUP_NO_SQARRAY,\nthe boundary check for 128-byte SQE operations in io_init_req()\nvalidated the logical SQ head position rather than the physical SQE\nindex.\n\nThe existing check:\n\n  !(ctx-\u003ecached_sq_head & (ctx-\u003esq_entries - 1))\n\nensures the logical position isn't at the end of the ring, which is\ncorrect for NO_SQARRAY rings where physical == logical. However, when\nsq_array is present, an unprivileged user can remap any logical\nposition to an arbitrary physical index via sq_array. Setting\nsq_array[N] = sq_entries - 1 places a 128-byte operation at the last\nphysical SQE slot, causing the 128-byte memcpy in\nio_uring_cmd_sqe_copy() to read 64 bytes past the end of the SQE\narray.\n\nReplace the cached_sq_head alignment check with a direct validation\nof the physical SQE index, which correctly handles both sq_array and\nNO_SQARRAY cases."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1cba30bf9fdd6c982708f3587f609a30c370d889","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f794f9bed3e5cf7250a3b4daf112a72ed1513e9"},{"version":"1cba30bf9fdd6c982708f3587f609a30c370d889","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f02c6b196036dbb6defb4647d8707d29b7fe95b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"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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