# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43171"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:27:46.698Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:19:09.627Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43171"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43171.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43171"
title: "EFI/CPER: don't dump the entire memory region"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nEFI/CPER: don't dump the entire memory region\n\nThe current logic at cper_print_fw_err() doesn't check if the\nerror record length is big enough to handle offset. On a bad firmware,\nif the ofset is above the actual record, length -= offset will\nunderflow, making it dump the entire memory.\n\nThe end result can be:\n\n - the logic taking a lot of time dumping large regions of memory;\n - data disclosure due to the memory dumps;\n - an OOPS, if it tries to dump an unmapped memory region.\n\nFix it by checking if the section length is too small before doing\na hex dump.\n\n[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]"
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