CVE-2026-45851

efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
May 27, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

The reserve_unaccepted() function incorrectly calculates the size of the memblock reservation for the unaccepted memory table. It aligns the size of the table, but fails to account for cases where the table's starting physical address (efi.unaccepted) is not page-aligned.

If the table starts at an offset within a page and its end crosses into a subsequent page that the aligned size does not cover, the end of the table will not be reserved. This can lead to the table being overwritten or inaccessible, causing a kernel panic in accept_memory().

This issue was observed when starting Intel TDX VMs with specific memory sizes (e.g., > 64GB).

Fix this by calculating the end address first (including the unaligned start) and then aligning it up, ensuring the entire range is covered by the reservation.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8dbe33956d96c9d066ef15ca933ede30748198b2 to before b7bc182ec1846be437351e44164089d988f9d0ddAffected
  • 8dbe33956d96c9d066ef15ca933ede30748198b2 to before ba6b6f1502fa55621d1db23f253d54322bdbe4e0Affected
  • 8dbe33956d96c9d066ef15ca933ede30748198b2 to before 9b18bf59977f5c5bc3b11b210520f62500a7adf3Affected
  • 8dbe33956d96c9d066ef15ca933ede30748198b2 to before e649b5916725c68f44ebf45fb396df563c5dbaf2Affected
  • 8dbe33956d96c9d066ef15ca933ede30748198b2 to before 0862438c90487e79822d5647f854977d50381505Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.128 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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