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CVE-2026-43221 (GCVE-0-2026-43221)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:20
VLAI
Title
ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < 905554ebd76aeee370bfd5136ea11e0b9d75c6f1 (git)
Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < 56d5c0557e53c4d8d92a619fa83eaae178165e07 (git)
Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < 2dfbc8c17dd161885336e77e71c336cd62cf6748 (git)
Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < f726b3a57e00bb6249c67714c11ae8b4b31719a1 (git)
Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < 102712417bb6aa9a00d852bc59cb0a276db486c4 (git)
Affected: 63c4eb347164845b380089012fe43992511c0ad3 , < 9f235ccecd03c436cb1683eac16b12f119e54aa9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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