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🛡️ CVE-2026-43234 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave

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

team: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when unregistering slave

syzbot is reporting

unregister_netdevice: waiting for netdevsim0 to become free. Usage count = 3

ref_tracker: netdev@ffff88807dcf8618 has 1/2 users at

__netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4400 [inline]

netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4429 [inline]

inetdev_init+0x201/0x4e0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:286

inetdev_event+0x251/0x1610 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1600

notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85

call_netdevice_notifiers_mtu net/core/dev.c:2318 [inline]

netif_set_mtu_ext+0x5aa/0x800 net/core/dev.c:9886

netif_set_mtu+0xd7/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:9907

dev_set_mtu+0x126/0x260 net/core/dev_api.c:248

team_port_del+0xb07/0xcb0 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1333

team_del_slave drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1936 [inline]

team_device_event+0x207/0x5b0 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2929

notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85

call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline]

call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2295 [inline]

__dev_change_net_namespace+0xcb7/0x2050 net/core/dev.c:12592

do_setlink+0x2ce/0x4590 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3060

rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3776 [inline]

__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3935 [inline]

rtnl_newlink+0x15a9/0x1be0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072

rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958

netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550

netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]

netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344

netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894

problem. Ido Schimmel found steps to reproduce

ip link add name team1 type team

ip link add name dummy1 mtu 1499 master team1 type dummy

ip netns add ns1

ip link set dev dummy1 netns ns1

ip -n ns1 link del dev dummy1

and also found that the same issue was fixed in the bond driver in

commit f51048c3e07b ("bonding: avoid NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event when

unregistering slave").

Let's do similar thing for the team driver, with commit ad7c7b2172c3 ("net:

hold netdev instance lock during sysfs operations") and commit 303a8487a657

("net: s/__dev_set_mtu/__netif_set_mtu/") also applied.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2026-43234 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.19.0 up to 6.19.6)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2026-43234 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.19.0 6.19.6
linux-kernel

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