CVE-2026-43224

medium Red Hat
Published: May 6, 2026 (8 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's io_uring/zcrx subsystem. Under specific conditions, a failure in memory mapping operations can result in a scatter-gather table (sgtable), which manages memory regions, not being properly freed. This memory leak could lead to resource exhaustion and potentially cause system instability or a denial of service (DoS).

CWE

CWE-772

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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