Kernel OOPS via unchecked GHES record lengths
Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 6, 2026
Out-of-bounds reads in Linux kernel APEI/GHES handling allow local users to cause a kernel OOPS when BIOS supplies a truncated ARM error record. The handlers in drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c and drivers/ras/ras.c dereference err->section_length and ctx_info->size before verifying that the GHESv2 buffer contains those fields. Exposure requires an ARM system using GHESv2 and a malformed or incomplete firmware error record; the documented consequence is service interruption through a kernel OOPS.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds reads in Linux kernel APEI/GHES handling allow local users to cause a kernel OOPS when BIOS supplies a truncated ARM error record. The handlers in drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c and drivers/ras/ras.c dereference err->section_length and ctx_info->size before verifying that the GHESv2 buffer contains those fields. Exposure requires an ARM system using GHESv2 and a malformed or incomplete firmware error record; the documented consequence is service interruption through a kernel OOPS.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-43201
- Published
- May 6, 2026
- Updated
- May 6, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- May 6, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 6, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <136093ba4161e0080088abff48273f6830a47766
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <242c652849d979d0133c315a42d9acea0ff88390
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <87880af2d24e62a84ed19943dbdd524f097172f2
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <db103b8bd3a4aca69b1b5fe8831a6ed75ac4b3bd
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