CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43266
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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer
There's a logic inside GHES/CPER to detect if the section_length
is too small, but it doesn't detect if it is too big.
Currently, if the firmware receives an ARM processor CPER record
stating that a section length is big, kernel will blindly trust
section_length, producing a very long dump. For instance, a 67
bytes record with ERR_INFO_NUM set 46198 and section length
set to 854918320 would dump a lot of data going a way past the
firmware memory-mapped area.
Fix it by adding a logic to prevent it to go past the buffer
if ERR_INFO_NUM is too big, making it report instead:
[Hardware Error]: Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 1
[Hardware Error]: event severity: recoverable
[Hardware Error]: Error 0, type: recoverable
[Hardware Error]: section_type: ARM processor error
[Hardware Error]: MIDR: 0xff304b2f8476870a
[Hardware Error]: section length: 854918320, CPER size: 67
[Hardware Error]: section length is too big
[Hardware Error]: firmware-generated error record is incorrect
[Hardware Error]: ERR_INFO_NUM is 46198
[ rjw: Subject and changelog tweaks ]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.13 < 5.10.252)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.202)
• 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)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25b290624b0e3d2f0f90238709ee0b6009b9fde8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45766863baf899059e75595dd3cb1116467f2095 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64eb63f573f497553e1a0c388bbcdd639e0f0704 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a68d22902a6916e10ee235fee609239004e129d0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be10c1bdf64a39832998f54900aa309b3917abcf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80113dcfc807308f5ab33847fae77e07531aeb8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca2aad8771aa9091bc9e42e7d546bd40b72ddcd4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae21beecb95a3b69ee5c38a659f774e171d730e Patch