Tracker / CVE-2026-43383
CVE-2026-43383
Critical 9.4
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tcp-md5: Fix MAC comparison to be constant-time To prevent timing attacks, MACs need to be compared in constant time. Use the appropriate helper function for this.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.20 → 5.10.253 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 6.1.167 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.9 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.130 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.78 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.