Upstream information

CVE-2026-43221 at MITRE

Description

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

ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes

IPMB doesn't use i2c reads, but the handler needs to set a value.
Otherwise an i2c read will return an uninitialised value from the bus
driver.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1264442 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu May 7 19:28:51 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri May 8 12:09:00 2026