CVE-2026-43099

Name	CVE-2026-43099
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: icmp: fix null-ptr-deref in icmp_build_probe() ipv6_stub->ipv6_dev_find() may return ERR_PTR(-EAFNOSUPPORT) when the IPv6 stack is not active (CONFIG_IPV6=m and not loaded), and passing this error pointer to dev_hold() will cause a kernel crash with null-ptr-deref. Instead, silently discard the request. RFC 8335 does not appear to define a specific response for the case where an IPv6 interface identifier is syntactically valid but the implementation cannot perform the lookup at runtime, and silently dropping the request may safer than misreporting "No Such Interface".
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.251-3	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.159-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.170-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.73-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.85-1	fixed
	forky	6.19.14-1	fixed
	sid	7.0.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bullseye	(not affected)
linux	source	trixie	6.12.85-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.19.14-1

[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/fde29fd9349327acc50d19a0b5f3d5a6c964dfd8 (7.0)