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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-43288 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: move ext4_percpu_param_init() before ext4_mb_init() When running `kvm-xfstests -c ext4/1k -C 1 generic/383` with the `DOUBLE_CHECK` macro defined, the following panic is triggered: ======================

[NVD] CVE-2026-43288 (MEDIUM 5.5) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: move ext4_percpu_param_init() before ext4_mb_init() When running `kvm-xfstests -c ext4/1k -C 1 generic/383` with the `DOUBLE_CHECK` macro defined, the following panic is triggered: ======================

lownvdPublished 2026-05-08

CVE-2026-43288 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-05-08T14:16:35.737

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

ext4: move ext4_percpu_param_init() before ext4_mb_init()

When running `kvm-xfstests -c ext4/1k -C 1 generic/383` with the `DOUBLE_CHECK` macro defined, the following panic is triggered:

================================================================== EXT4-fs

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43288