# 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-2026-43491"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-19T10:44:23.832Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:27:59.057Z"
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-2026-43491"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43491.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43491"
title: "net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node\n\nCurrent code does no bound checking on the number of servers added per\nnode. A malicious client can flood NEW_SERVER messages and exhaust memory.\n\nFix this issue by limiting the maximum number of server registrations to\n256 per node. If the NEW_SERVER message is received for an old port, then\ndon't restrict it as it will get replaced. While at it, also rate limit\nthe error messages in the failure path of qrtr_ns_worker().\n\nNote that the limit of 256 is chosen based on the current platform\nrequirements. If requirement changes in the future, this limit can be\nincreased."
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