ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data The event message buffer response data size got checked later when processing, but check it right after the response comes back. It appears some BMCs may return an empty message instead of an error when fetching events. There are apparently some new BMCs that make this error, so we need to compensate.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1808 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Check event message buffer response for bad data The event message buffer response data size got checked later when processing, but check it right after the response comes back. It appears some BMCs may return an empty message instead of an error when fetching events. There are apparently some new BMCs that make this error, so we need to compensate.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01f8387fa5b796f13cf50014c171f6da7abc46ea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2418e4b21fb1355504d095da5d5f0a210564a43d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24269264c3d59a49eb09b10af2c75b14f2931482
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36920f30e78e69df01f9691c470b6f3ba8aebf98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42432b579a594b66ac32e5e7b7c26e6bc578ec89
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/474e53d4397087913a5b9c9eb90fa068da4808bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f7ada72c07a83b46045ddfeee526bd9e2e3c8f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf1ef30c42a7079e5bad863cd01c52aa3a17c3ac
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46128.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46128