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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43455" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:19.375Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:24:55.256Z" 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-2026-43455" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43455.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43455" title: "mctp: route: hold key-\u003elock in mctp_flow_prepare_output()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmctp: route: hold key-\u003elock in mctp_flow_prepare_output()\n\nmctp_flow_prepare_output() checks key-\u003edev and may call\nmctp_dev_set_key(), but it does not hold key-\u003elock while doing so.\n\nmctp_dev_set_key() and mctp_dev_release_key() are annotated with\n__must_hold(&key-\u003elock), so key-\u003edev access is intended to be\nserialized by key-\u003elock. The mctp_sendmsg() transmit path reaches\nmctp_flow_prepare_output() via mctp_local_output() -\u003e mctp_dst_output()\nwithout holding key-\u003elock, so the check-and-set sequence is racy.\n\nExample interleaving:\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n mctp_flow_prepare_output(key, devA)\n if (!key-\u003edev) // sees NULL\n mctp_flow_prepare_output(\n key, devB)\n if (!key-\u003edev) // still NULL\n mctp_dev_set_key(devB, key)\n mctp_dev_hold(devB)\n key-\u003edev = devB\n mctp_dev_set_key(devA, key)\n mctp_dev_hold(devA)\n key-\u003edev = devA // overwrites devB\n\nNow both devA and devB references were acquired, but only the final\nkey-\u003edev value is tracked for release. One reference can be lost,\ncausing a resource leak as mctp_dev_release_key() would only decrease\nthe reference on one dev.\n\nFix by taking key-\u003elock around the key-\u003edev check and\nmctp_dev_set_key() call." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47893166bc5611ee9a20de6b8d2933b2320fb772"},{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86f5334fcb48a5b611c33364ab52ca684d0f6d91"},{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0695712f3a6f1a48915f95767cfb42077683dcdc"},{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"925a5ffd99cddd7a7e41d5ad120c7a2c6d50260f"},{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d27d9b260dd19c1b519e1a13de6448f9984e30e"},{"version":"67737c457281dd199ceb9e31b6ba7efd3bfe566d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d86aa41c073c4e7eb75fd2e674f1fd8f289728a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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