CVE-2026-46177
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi: Add limits to event and receive message requests The driver would just fetch events and receive messages until the BMC said it was done. To avoid issues with BMCs that never say they are done, add a limit of 10 fetches at a time. In addition, an si interface has an attn state it can return from the hardware which is supposed to cause a flag fetch to see if the driver needs to fetch events or message or a few other things. If the attn bit gets stuck, it's a similar problem. So allow messages in between flag fetches so the driver itself doesn't get stuck. This is a more general fix than the previous fix for the specific bad BMC, but should fix the more general issue of a BMC that won't stop saying it has data. This has been there from the beginning of the driver. It's not a bug per-se, but it is accounting for bugs in BMCs.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | fixed | 7.0.7-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 7.0.7-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 6.12.88-1 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d37d2165df9504ea99d9e6181552dc4d2d1ab37
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67c44e0deba936d5edaebea356b4589eb43acb5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c024167fb00489baee08c72182ca2e7dc5fb9f20
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4cca236968683eb0d59abfb12d5c7e4d8514227
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20212b431bef217d3886b86bbc90cc3ed00de68
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46177
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.