Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [4.14.292,4.15)[4.19.257,4.20)[5.4.212,5.5)[5.10.140,5.11)[5.15.64,5.16)[5.19.6,5.20)[6.0,6.12.114)[6.13,6.18.16)[6.19,6.19.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20788937
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed8 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 May 2026

CVE-2026-43309  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.15, 4.20, 5.5, 5.11, 5.16, 5.20, 6.12.114, 6.18.16, 6.19.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure through the md_stop process. An attacker can cause the system to hang indefinitely by triggering the removal of a top-level RAID device while its underlying metadata and data devices are suspended. This is only exploitable if a dm-raid managed device tree is suspended from top to bottom and the top-level RAID device is then removed.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1