Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-43216 — azl3 kernel
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products12
- azl3 kernel 6.6.137.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.138.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.139.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.141.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.143.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.144.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.145.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.150.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.152.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.161.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
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| — | Security Update | — |
| — | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-43216
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: Drop the lock in skb_may_tx_timestamp() skb_may_tx_timestamp() may acquire sock::sk_callback_lock. The lock must not be taken in IRQ context, only softirq is okay. A few drivers receive the timestamp via a dedicated interrupt and complete the TX timestamp from that handler. This will lead to a deadlock if the lock is already write-locked on the same CPU. Taking the lock can be avoided. The socket (pointed by the skb) will remain valid until the skb is released. The ->sk_socket and ->file member will be set to NULL once the user closes the socket which may happen before the timestamp arrives. If we happen to observe the pointer while the socket is closing but before the pointer is set to NULL then we may use it because both pointer (and the file's cred member) are RCU freed. Drop the lock. Use READ_ONCE() to obtain the individual pointer. Add a matching WRITE_ONCE() where the pointer are cleared.
Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-43216, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).