CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43129
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ima: verify the previous kernel's IMA buffer lies in addressable RAM
Patch series "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()", v3.
When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command
line such as "mem=<size>" we observe a pafe fault that happens.
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000
RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a
#PF: error_code(0x0000) not-present page
This happens on x86_64 only, as this is already fixed in aarch64 in
commit: cbf9c4b9617b ("of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer
against memory bounds")
This patch (of 3):
When the second-stage kernel is booted with a limiting command line (e.g.
"mem=<size>"), the IMA measurement buffer handed over from the previous
kernel may fall outside the addressable RAM of the new kernel. Accessing
such a buffer can fault during early restore.
Introduce a small generic helper, ima_validate_range(), which verifies
that a physical [start, end] range for the previous-kernel IMA buffer lies
within addressable memory:
- On x86, use pfn_range_is_mapped().
- On OF based architectures, use page_is_ram().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.12.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10d1c75ed4382a8e79874379caa2ead8952734f9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43308106a1762b72f3b20a44b75b2df5cb25b77b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5366ec7d2f793ce703c403d7fd4c25a3db365b9d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e1f51c1ad57cc76a0e8b5eb27038f8973fff4fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f11d7d088f5ed54b31c6735854c12845eb60eb4a Patch