# 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-2026-43240"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:34.269Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-19T11:58:23.596Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43240"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43240.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43240"
title: "x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer\n\nWhen the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command\nline such as \"mem=\u003csize\u003e\", the physical range that contains the carried\nover IMA measurement list may fall outside the truncated RAM leading to a\nkernel panic.\n\n    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000\n    RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a\n    #PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page\n\nOther architectures already validate the range with page_is_ram(), as done\nin commit cbf9c4b9617b (\"of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer\nagainst memory bounds\") do a similar check on x86.\n\nWithout carrying the measurement list across kexec, the attestation\nwould fail."
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