CVE-2026-23156 (GCVE-0-2026-23156)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-14 16:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:01
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Title
efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get() efivar_entry_get() always returns success even if the underlying __efivar_entry_get() fails, masking errors. This may result in uninitialized heap memory being copied to userspace in the efivarfs_file_read() path. Fix it by returning the error from __efivar_entry_get().
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Linux Linux Affected: 2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c , < 3960f1754664661a970dc9ebbab44ff93a0b4c42 (git)
Affected: 2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c , < 510a16f1c5c1690b33504052bc13fbc2772c23f8 (git)
Affected: 2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c , < 89b8ca709eeeabcc11ebba64806677873a2787a8 (git)
Affected: 2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c , < e4e15a0a4403c96d9898d8398f0640421df9cb16 (git)
Affected: 2d82e6227ea189c0589e7383a36616ac2a2d248c , < 4b22ec1685ce1fc0d862dcda3225d852fb107995 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.162 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.123 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.69 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.9 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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