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CVE-2026-43303

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 8, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-43303 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 9, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - x86 architecture; - Intel NPU Driver; - Auxiliary display drivers; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Mouse) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Texas Instruments network drivers; - NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; - Parport drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - Trusted Execution Environment drivers; -

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 9, 2026

Vendor remediation details

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 8, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - ARM32 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - Intel NPU Driver; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - Auxiliary display drivers; - Drivers core; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA); - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Mouse) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Texas Instruments network drivers; -

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-43303?

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

mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()

Several subsystems (slub, shmem, ttm, etc.) use page->private but don't clear it before freeing pages. When these pages are later allocated as high-order pages and split via split_page(), tail pages retain stale page->private values.

This causes a use-after-free in the swap subsystem. The swap code uses page->private to track swap count continuations, assuming freshly allocated pages have page->private == 0.

When stale values are present, swap_count_continued() incorrectly assumes the continuation list is valid and iterates over uninitialized page->lru containing LIST_POISON values, causing a crash:

KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead000000000100-0xdead000000000107] RIP: 0010:__do_sys_swapoff+0x1151/0x1860

Fix this by clearing page->private in free_pages_prepare(), ensuring all freed pages have clean state regardless of previous use.

Source: NVD