# CVE-2026-43224: io\_uring/zcrx: fix sgtable leak on mapping failures

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-06 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.18

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/zcrx: fix sgtable leak on mapping failures In an unlikely case when io_populate_area_dma() fails, which could only happen on a PAGE_POOL_32BIT_ARCH_WITH_64BIT_DMA machine, io_zcrx_map_area() will have an initialised and not freed table. It was supposed to be cleaned up in the error path, but !is_mapped prevents that.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1ae403324311e143ef20e53cf9a5f01e312f7c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef075c1464ac9047e2cf7d23cb020bfd0b8e4b60
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a983aae397767e9da931128ff2b5bf9066513ce3

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