# CVE-2024-26843: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size

- Severity: CVSS 6.0 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-04-17 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.5

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efi: runtime: Fix potential overflow of soft-reserved region size md_size will have been narrowed if we have >= 4GB worth of pages in a soft-reserved region.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fff3d735baea104017f2e3c245e27cdc79f2426
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aa36b62c3eaa869860bf78b1146e9f2b5f782a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/700c3f642c32721f246e09d3a9511acf40ae42be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3d6813601fe496de7f023435e31bfffa74ae70
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/156cb12ffdcf33883304f0db645e1eadae712fe0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de1034b38a346ef6be25fe8792f5d1e0684d5ff4

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