ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43221
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes IPMB doesn't use i2c reads, but the handler needs to set a value. Otherwise an i2c read will return an uninitialised value from the bus driver.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < 905554ebd76aeee370bfd5136ea11e0b9d75c6f1 ; affected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < 56d5c0557e53c4d8d92a619fa83eaae178165e07 ; affected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < 2dfbc8c17dd161885336e77e71c336cd62cf6748 ; affected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < f726b3a57e00bb6249c67714c11ae8b4b31719a1 ; affected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < 102712417bb6aa9a00d852bc59cb0a276db486c4 ; affected 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 < 9f235ccecd03c436cb1683eac16b12f119e54aa9
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.16 ; unaffected 0 < 5.16 ; unaffected 6.1.165 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.128 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.75 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.16 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD