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CVE-2024-26843 (GCVE-0-2024-26843)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-17 10:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:05
VLAI
Title
efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.
Severity
6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-12 17:35 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < 4fff3d735baea104017f2e3c245e27cdc79f2426 (git)
Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < 4aa36b62c3eaa869860bf78b1146e9f2b5f782a9 (git)
Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < 700c3f642c32721f246e09d3a9511acf40ae42be (git)
Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < cf3d6813601fe496de7f023435e31bfffa74ae70 (git)
Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < 156cb12ffdcf33883304f0db645e1eadae712fe0 (git)
Affected: 16993c0f0a43213e23666ea40e9163887f593ac7 , < de1034b38a346ef6be25fe8792f5d1e0684d5ff4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.211 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.150 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.80 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.19 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.7 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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