CVE-2026-68435 (GCVE-0-2026-68435)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 00:07 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:05
VLAI
Title
LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup When searching the loaded segments for the "kexec" command line marker, the kexec_load(2) path (file_mode == 0) passes the user-space segment buffer straight to strncmp() through a bogus (char __user *) cast. This dereferences a user pointer in kernel context, which is wrong and is flagged by sparse: arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c:84:51: sparse: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces) @@ expected char const * @@ got char [noderef] __user * Here copy the marker-sized prefix of each segment into a small on-stack buffer with copy_from_user() before comparing, and skip segments that fault. The subsequent copy_from_user() that stages the full command line into the safe area is left unchanged.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 , < a94d6726ec8680a2b0c453fc782a543f68a1ea06 (git)
Affected: 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 , < 7a54e0cbaad4a5a09e7cc7a4f05d181048e98ca7 (git)
Affected: 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 , < 485ed44db5694d8d2e5027f63ad608e705286f30 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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