# 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-2026-43493"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-19T10:44:25.402Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:37.700Z"
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-2026-43493"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43493.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43493"
title: "crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests\n\nMAY_BACKLOG requests can return EBUSY.  Handle them by checking\nfor that value and filtering out EINPROGRESS notifications."
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