CVE-2026-43302

Linux Kernel 4.18 – 5.15.202

Published

08 May 2026

Modified

17 June 2026

Patch / advisory

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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5

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Raw vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0012 2th percentile

Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2026-43302 is a medium-severity Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size (CWE-131) vulnerability in Linux Linux Kernel. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-8 (Security and Privacy Engineering Principles) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-28572

Vulnerability Data

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/v3d: Set DMA segment size to avoid debug warnings When using V3D rendering with CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG enabled, the kernel occasionally reports a segment size mismatch. This is because 'max_seg_size' is not…

set. The kernel defaults to 64K. setting 'max_seg_size' to the maximum will prevent 'debug_dma_map_sg()' from complaining about the over-mapping of the V3D segment length. DMA-API: v3d 1002000000.v3d: mapping sg segment longer than device claims to support [len=8290304] [max=65536] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 493 at kernel/dma/debug.c:1179 debug_dma_map_sg+0x330/0x388 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 493 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 6.12.53-yocto-standard #1 Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 (DT) pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : debug_dma_map_sg+0x330/0x388 lr : debug_dma_map_sg+0x330/0x388 sp : ffff8000829a3ac0 x29: ffff8000829a3ac0 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: ffff8000813fe000 x26: ffffc1ffc0000000 x25: ffff00010fdeb760 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: ffff8000816a9bf0 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: 0000000000000002 x20: 0000000000000002 x19: ffff00010185e810 x18: ffffffffffffffff x17: 69766564206e6168 x16: 74207265676e6f6c x15: 20746e656d676573 x14: 20677320676e6970 x13: 5d34303334393134 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 00000000000000c0 x10: 00000000000009c0 x9 : ffff8000800e0b7c x8 : ffff00010a315ca0 x7 : ffff8000816a5110 x6 : 0000000000000001 x5 : 000000000000002b x4 : 0000000000000002 x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff00010a315280 Call trace: debug_dma_map_sg+0x330/0x388 __dma_map_sg_attrs+0xc0/0x278 dma_map_sgtable+0x30/0x58 drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt+0xb4/0x140 v3d_bo_create_finish+0x28/0x130 [v3d] v3d_create_bo_ioctl+0x54/0x180 [v3d] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xc8/0x140 drm_ioctl+0x2d4/0x4d8

CWE(s): CWE-131

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.

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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.

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T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access Credential Access

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials.

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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

linux

linux kernel

4.18 — 5.15.202 · 5.16 — 6.1.165 · 6.2 — 6.6.128

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SA-11 Developer Testing and Evaluation good match

Developer security testing and code review can discover incorrect buffer-size computations before deployment.

SA-8 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles partial match

Secure engineering principles directly require correct buffer-size arithmetic and bounds-checked allocation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match

Input validation can enforce that supplied lengths or counts used in size calculations are within safe bounds.

SI-16 Memory Protection partial match

Memory-protection mechanisms limit the exploitability of an overflow that results from an incorrect size calculation.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation partial match

Flaw-remediation processes that include vulnerability scanning or static analysis will surface buffer-size errors.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match

prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent buffer-size miscalculations via coding standards, reviews, and testing, while fixing this single weakness only partially fulfills the broader control.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.28 Secure coding mostly match

degrades

Secure coding standards directly require correct buffer-size calculations.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match

finds

Security testing can detect buffer-size errors before release.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match

prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates size-checking practices that reduce buffer-size miscalculations.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match

prevents

Application security requirements can specify buffer-size validation rules.