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CVE-2026-6862

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Ubuntu Libefiboot

Weakness Type

CWE-674

References