CVE-2026-43266

MEDIUM

EFI/CPER: don't go past the ARM processor CPER record buffer

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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 ]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (27)
Linux/Linux < 4.13
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 25b290624b0e3d2f0f90238709ee0b6009b9fde8
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 45766863baf899059e75595dd3cb1116467f2095
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 64eb63f573f497553e1a0c388bbcdd639e0f0704
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - a68d22902a6916e10ee235fee609239004e129d0
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - be10c1bdf64a39832998f54900aa309b3917abcf
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - c80113dcfc807308f5ab33847fae77e07531aeb8
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - ca2aad8771aa9091bc9e42e7d546bd40b72ddcd4
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - eae21beecb95a3b69ee5c38a659f774e171d730e
Linux/Linux 2f74f09bce4f8d0236f20174a6daae63e10fe733 - 25b290624b0e3d2f0f90238709ee0b6009b9fde8
... and 17 more
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026