CVE-2026-43321 (GCVE-0-2026-43321)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-08 13:26
Modified
2026-10-19 19:16
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Properly mark live registers for indirect jumps
For a `gotox rX` instruction the rX register should be marked as used
in the compute_insn_live_regs() function. Fix this.
References
Impacted products
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