# 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-2026-43289"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:11:13.860Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:06:38.103Z"
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-2026-43289"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43289.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43289"
title: "kexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkexec: derive purgatory entry from symbol\n\nkexec_load_purgatory() derives image-\u003estart by locating e_entry inside an\nSHF_EXECINSTR section.  If the purgatory object contains multiple\nexecutable sections with overlapping sh_addr, the entrypoint check can\nmatch more than once and trigger a WARN.\n\nDerive the entry section from the purgatory_start symbol when present and\ncompute image-\u003estart from its final placement.  Keep the existing e_entry\nfallback for purgatories that do not expose the symbol.\n\nWARNING: kernel/kexec_file.c:1009 at kexec_load_purgatory+0x395/0x3c0, CPU#10: kexec/1784\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n bzImage64_load+0x133/0xa00\n __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x2b3/0x5c0\n do_syscall_64+0x81/0x610\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n[me@linux.beauty: move helper to avoid forward declaration, per Baoquan]"
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