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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 8, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 21, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed

After we hit ftrace is killed by some errors, the kernel crash if
we remove modules in which kprobe probes.

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff805000d
PGD 817fcc067 P4D 817fcc067 PUD 817fc8067 PMD 101555067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 2012 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W OE
Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
RIP: 0010:kprobes_module_callback+0x89/0x790
RSP: 0018:ffff88812e157d30 EFLAGS: 00010a02
RAX: 1ffffffff805000d RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffffffff86a8de90
RDX: ffffed1025c2af9b RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffc0280068
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1025c2af9a
R10: ffff88812e157cd7 R11: 205d323130325420 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffffc0290488 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffffffffc0280040
FS: 00007fbc450dd740(0000) GS:ffff888420331000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffbfff805000d CR3: 000000010f624000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:

notifier_call_chain+0xc6/0x280
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x60/0x90
__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x32a/0x4e0
do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xfa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

This is because the kprobe on ftrace does not correctly handles
the kprobe_ftrace_disabled flag set by ftrace_kill().

To prevent this error, check kprobe_ftrace_disabled in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and skip all ftrace related operations.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 8, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 8, 2026
Last updated May 21, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(2nd percentile)

Weaknesses

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-43409

GHSA ID

GHSA-pfxc-r4m8-gw9p

Source code

No known source code

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