# 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-2026-53047"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:53.491Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:53.491Z"
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-2026-53047"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53047.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53047"
title: "efi/capsule-loader: fix incorrect sizeof in phys array reallocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nefi/capsule-loader: fix incorrect sizeof in phys array reallocation\n\nThe krealloc() call for cap_info-\u003ephys in __efi_capsule_setup_info() uses\nsizeof(phys_addr_t *) instead of sizeof(phys_addr_t), which might be\ncausing an undersized allocation.\n\nThe allocation is also inconsistent with the initial array allocation in\nefi_capsule_open() that allocates one entry with sizeof(phys_addr_t),\nand the efi_capsule_write() function that stores phys_addr_t values (not\npointers) via page_to_phys().\n\nOn 64-bit systems where sizeof(phys_addr_t) == sizeof(phys_addr_t *), this\ngoes unnoticed. On 32-bit systems with PAE where phys_addr_t is 64-bit but\npointers are 32-bit, this allocates half the required space, which might\nlead to a heap buffer overflow when storing physical addresses.\n\nThis is similar to the bug fixed in commit fccfa646ef36 (\"efi/capsule-loader:\nfix incorrect allocation size\") which fixed the same issue at the initial\nallocation site."
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