# CVE-2026-43164: linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udplite: Fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_sch... CVE-2026-43164 is fixed in 23 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2026-1702, released May 11, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43164 - Priority: High - CVSS: 7.5 (high) - EPSS: 0.0045 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: May 6, 2026 ## Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udplite: Fix null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb(). syzbot reported null-ptr-deref of udp_sk(sk)->udp_prod_queue. [0] Since the cited commit, udp_lib_init_sock() can fail, as can udp_init_sock() and udpv6_init_sock(). Let's handle the error in udplite_sk_init() and udplitev6_sk_init(). [0]: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb+0x151/0x1480 net/ipv4/udp.c:1719 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000008 by task syz.2.18/2944 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2944 Comm: syz.2.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPTLAZY Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120 kasan_report+0xa2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:595 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline] atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline] __udp_enqueue_schedule_skb+0x151/0x1480 net/ipv4/udp.c:1719 __udpv6_queue_rcv_skb net/ipv6/udp.c:795 [inline] udpv6_queue_rcv_one_skb+0xa2e/0x1ad0 net/ipv6/udp.c:906 udp6_unicast_rcv_skb+0x227/0x380 net/ipv6/udp.c:1064 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xe17/0x1540 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:438 ip6_input_finish+0x191/0x350 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:489 NF_HOOK+0x354/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318 ip6_input+0x16c/0x2b0 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:500 NF_HOOK+0x354/0x3f0 include/linux/netfilter.h:318 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6149 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0xd3/0x370 net/core/dev.c:6262 process_backlog+0x4d6/0x1160 net/core/dev.c:6614 __napi_poll+0xae/0x320 net/core/dev.c:7678 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7741 [inline] net_rx_action+0x60d/0xdc0 net/core/dev.c:7893 handle_softirqs+0x209/0x8d0 kernel/softirq.c:622 do_softirq+0x52/0x90 kernel/softirq.c:523 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xe7/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:450 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline] rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:924 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0x109c/0x2dc0 net/core/dev.c:4856 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:-1 [inline] ip6_finish_output+0x158/0x4e0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:219 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline] ip6_output+0x342/0x580 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:246 ip6_send_skb+0x1d7/0x3c0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1984 udp_v6_send_skb+0x9a5/0x1770 net/ipv6/udp.c:1442 udp_v6_push_pending_frames+0xa2/0x140 net/ipv6/udp.c:1469 udpv6_sendmsg+0xfe0/0x2830 net/ipv6/udp.c:1759 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0xe5/0x270 net/socket.c:742 __sys_sendto+0x3eb/0x580 net/socket.c:2206 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2209 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xd2/0xf20 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7f67b4d9c629 Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f67b5c98028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f67b5015fa0 RCX: 00007f67b4d9c629 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f67b4e32b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000040000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f67b5016038 R14: 00007f67b5015fa0 R15: 00007ffe3cb66dd8 ## Where it's fixed | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | bpftool6.18 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | bpftool6.18-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel-livepatch-6.18.16-18.222 amzn 2023 | 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-aarch64 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-x86_64 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-headers amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-libbpf amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-libbpf-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-libbpf-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-libbpf-static amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-modules-extra amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-modules-extra-common amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-tools amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | kernel6.18-tools-devel amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | linux Debian 14 | 6.19.6-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43164](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-43164.md) | May 15, 2026 | | Linux | perf6.18 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | perf6.18-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | python3-perf6.18 amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | | Linux | python3-perf6.18-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:6.18.16-18.222.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2026-1702](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1702.md) | May 11, 2026 | --- Data as of 2026-11-09T01:18:40Z UTC. 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