CVE-2026-46177

Technical 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.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References