CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43221
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes
IPMB doesn't use i2c reads, but the handler needs to set a value.
Otherwise an i2c read will return an uninitialised value from the bus
driver.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/102712417bb6aa9a00d852bc59cb0a276db486c4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dfbc8c17dd161885336e77e71c336cd62cf6748 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56d5c0557e53c4d8d92a619fa83eaae178165e07 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/905554ebd76aeee370bfd5136ea11e0b9d75c6f1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f235ccecd03c436cb1683eac16b12f119e54aa9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f726b3a57e00bb6249c67714c11ae8b4b31719a1 Patch