CVE-2026-43491 PUBLISHED

net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 19.05.2026 Updated: 19.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per node

Current code does no bound checking on the number of servers added per node. A malicious client can flood NEW_SERVER messages and exhaust memory.

Fix this issue by limiting the maximum number of server registrations to 256 per node. If the NEW_SERVER message is received for an old port, then don't restrict it as it will get replaced. While at it, also rate limit the error messages in the failure path of qrtr_ns_worker().

Note that the limit of 256 is chosen based on the current platform requirements. If requirement changes in the future, this limit can be increased.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0c2204a4ad710d95d348ea006f14ba926e842ffd to e6f6cd501fb54060940a6eb3f4103eeb5e426ae7 (excl.)
  • affected from 0c2204a4ad710d95d348ea006f14ba926e842ffd to 3efaad55cad1ded429e3a873bfece389058a526b (excl.)
  • affected from 0c2204a4ad710d95d348ea006f14ba926e842ffd to 35fb4a0c077c5d1049c2628b769e0a1b1e65df0d (excl.)
  • affected from 0c2204a4ad710d95d348ea006f14ba926e842ffd to 868202aa2adae427060a42d5bd663b4d782ec02c (excl.)
  • affected from 0c2204a4ad710d95d348ea006f14ba926e842ffd to d5ee2ff98322337951c56398e79d51815acbf955 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.140 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.86 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.27 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.4 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1-rc1 to * (incl.)

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