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CVE-2026-6862
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-04-22T14:17:08.060 · Last modified 2026-06-17T11:01:26.800

Summary

A flaw was found in libefiboot, a component of efivar. The device path node parser in libefiboot fails to validate that each node's Length field is at least 4 bytes, which is the minimum size for an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) device path node header. A local user could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted device path node. This can lead to infinite recursion, causing stack exhaustion and a process crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS).

Affected products

ubuntu — libefiboot

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