CVE-2026-23156

efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get()

published February 14, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get()

efivar_entry_get() always returns success even if the underlying

__efivar_entry_get() fails, masking errors.

This may result in uninitialized heap memory being copied to userspace

in the efivarfs_file_read() path.

Fix it by returning the error from __efivar_entry_get().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00141 · 3.1th percentile
Published
2026-02-14T16:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 FEB 16:01Z
    efivarfs: fix error propagation in efivar_entry_get()
    cvelistv5