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efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.10.211, 5.15.150, 6.1.80, 6.6.19, 6.7.7
CVEs
CVE-2024-26843
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
6 Nov 2026, 01:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Apr 2024, 10:10 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.

osv:CVE-2024-26843

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.10.211, 5.15.150, 6.1.80, 6.6.19, 6.7.7

Complete source record
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