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CVE-2026-43240

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 6, 2026Sources checked Oct 8, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-43240 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 8, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - ARM32 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - Intel NPU Driver; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - Auxiliary display drivers; - Drivers core; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA); - EFI core; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Mouse) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Texas Instruments network drivers; -

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 8, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - x86 architecture; - Intel NPU Driver; - Auxiliary display drivers; - Compressed RAM block device driver; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Input Device (Mouse) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Texas Instruments network drivers; - NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; - Parport drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - SLIMbus drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - Trusted Execution Environment drivers; -

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Oct 8, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-43240?

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

x86/kexec: add a sanity check on previous kernel's ima kexec buffer

When the second-stage kernel is booted via kexec with a limiting command line such as "mem=<size>", the physical range that contains the carried over IMA measurement list may fall outside the truncated RAM leading to a kernel panic.

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff97793ff47000 RIP: ima_restore_measurement_list+0xdc/0x45a #PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page

Other architectures already validate the range with page_is_ram(), as done in commit cbf9c4b9617b ("of: check previous kernel's ima-kexec-buffer against memory bounds") do a similar check on x86.

Without carrying the measurement list across kexec, the attestation would fail.

Source: NVD