Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2026· Updated May 20, 2026
CVE-2026-43463
CVE-2026-43463
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc, afs: Fix missing error pointer check after rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer()
rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() can also return error pointers in addition to NULL, so just checking for NULL is not sufficient.
Fix this by:
(1) Changing rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() to return -ENOMEM rather than NULL on allocation failure.
(2) Making the callers in afs use IS_ERR() and PTR_ERR() to pass on the error code returned.
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