CVE-2026-45851

efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

published May 27, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table

The reserve_unaccepted() function incorrectly calculates the size of the

memblock reservation for the unaccepted memory table. It aligns the

size of the table, but fails to account for cases where the table's

starting physical address (efi.unaccepted) is not page-aligned.

If the table starts at an offset within a page and its end crosses into

a subsequent page that the aligned size does not cover, the end of the

table will not be reserved. This can lead to the table being overwritten

or inaccessible, causing a kernel panic in accept_memory().

This issue was observed when starting Intel TDX VMs with specific memory

sizes (e.g., > 64GB).

Fix this by calculating the end address first (including the unaligned

start) and then aligning it up, ensuring the entire range is covered

by the reservation.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00164 · 5.3th percentile
Published
2026-05-27T12:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 12:15Z
    efi: Fix reservation of unaccepted memory table
    cvelistv5