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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-43445

| EUVD-2026-28751 MEDIUM
Memory Leak (CWE-401)
2026-05-08 Linux GHSA-fg4c-9xcm-vp9q
5.5
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Generated
May 21, 2026 - 16:53 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 21, 2026 - 16:52 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
May 08, 2026 - 16:18 EUVD
CVE Published
May 08, 2026 - 14:22 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

e1000/e1000e: Fix leak in DMA error cleanup

If an error is encountered while mapping TX buffers, the driver should unmap any buffers already mapped for that skb.

Because count is incremented after a successful mapping, it will always match the correct number of unmappings needed when dma_error is reached. Decrementing count before the while loop in dma_error causes an off-by-one error. If any mapping was successful before an unsuccessful mapping, exactly one DMA mapping would leak.

In these commits, a faulty while condition caused an infinite loop in dma_error: Commit 03b1320dfcee ("e1000e: remove use of skb_dma_map from e1000e driver") Commit 602c0554d7b0 ("e1000: remove use of skb_dma_map from e1000 driver")

Commit c1fa347f20f1 ("e1000/e1000e/igb/igbvf/ixgb/ixgbe: Fix tests of unsigned in *_tx_map()") fixed the infinite loop, but introduced the off-by-one error.

This issue may still exist in the igbvf driver, but I did not address it in this patch.

AnalysisAI

DMA mapping resource leak in Linux kernel e1000 and e1000e Intel Ethernet drivers results in local denial-of-service conditions via memory exhaustion. The flaw originates from an off-by-one error in the TX buffer error-cleanup path (dma_error), introduced by commit c1fa347f20f1 which fixed an infinite loop but simultaneously decremented the unmap counter prematurely - causing exactly one DMA mapping to leak per failed multi-buffer TX operation. …

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