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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43277" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:59.486Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:21:26.865Z" 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-2026-43277" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43277.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43277" title: "APEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nAPEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record\n\nThe logic at ghes_new() prevents allocating too large records, by\nchecking if they're bigger than GHES_ESTATUS_MAX_SIZE (currently, 64KB).\nYet, the allocation is done with the actual number of pages from the\nCPER bios table location, which can be smaller.\n\nYet, a bad firmware could send data with a different size, which might\nbe bigger than the allocated memory, causing an OOPS:\n\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fff00000f9b40000\n Mem abort info:\n ESR = 0x0000000096000007\n EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits\n SET = 0, FnV = 0\n EA = 0, S1PTW = 0\n FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault\n Data abort info:\n ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000007, ISS2 = 0x00000000\n CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0\n GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0\n swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 52-bit VAs, pgdp=000000008ba16000\n [fff00000f9b40000] pgd=180000013ffff403, p4d=180000013fffe403, pud=180000013f85b403, pmd=180000013f68d403, pte=0000000000000000\n Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000007 [#1] SMP\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 303 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1-00002-gda407d200220 #34 PREEMPT\n Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022\n Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred\n pstate: 214020c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0\n lr : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x328/0x4a0\n sp : ffff800080e13880\n x29: ffff800080e13880 x28: ffffac9aba86f6a8 x27: 0000000000000083\n x26: fff00000f9b3fffc x25: 0000000000000004 x24: 0000000000000004\n x23: ffff800080e13905 x22: 0000000000000010 x21: 0000000000000083\n x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000008 x18: 0000000000000010\n x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 00000007c7f20fec x15: 0000000000000020\n x14: 0000000000000008 x13: 0000000000081020 x12: 0000000000000008\n x11: ffff800080e13905 x10: ffff800080e13988 x9 : 0000000000000000\n x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000020\n x5 : 0000000000000030 x4 : 00000000fffffffe x3 : 0000000000000000\n x2 : ffffac9aba78c1c8 x1 : ffffac9aba76d0a8 x0 : 0000000000000008\n Call trace:\n hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0 (P)\n print_hex_dump+0xac/0x170\n cper_estatus_print_section+0x90c/0x968\n cper_estatus_print+0xf0/0x158\n __ghes_print_estatus+0xa0/0x148\n ghes_proc+0x1bc/0x220\n ghes_notify_hed+0x5c/0xb8\n notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x148\n blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x80\n acpi_hed_notify+0x28/0x40\n acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x50/0x80\n acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x24/0x48\n process_one_work+0x15c/0x3b0\n worker_thread+0x2d0/0x400\n kthread+0x148/0x228\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n Code: 6b14033f 540001ad a94707e2 f100029f (b8747b44)\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nPrevent that by taking the actual allocated are into account when\nchecking for CPER length.\n\n[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]" affected: 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