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CVE-2026-80640 (GCVE-0-2026-80640)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:48 – Updated: 2026-08-28 06:48
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Title
cxl/fwctl: Fix __fortify_panic
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/fwctl: Fix __fortify_panic Fix a runtime assertion in cxlctl_get_supported_features(). Fortify complains that it is potentially overflowing the entries array per __counted_by_le(num_entries). Quiet the false positive by initializing @num_entries earlier. memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 48 byte write of buffer size 0 WARNING: lib/string_helpers.c:1036 at __fortify_report+0x4d/0xa0, CPU#7: fwctl/1398 RIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x50/0xa0 Call Trace: __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf cxlctl_get_supported_features.cold+0x23/0x35 [cxl_core]
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d , < b8d15e85596ad8993d42e0703a9741961a2f03eb (git)
Affected: 4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d , < 18c67ecc5dafe14055edcea53f36f4e31df1816b (git)
Affected: 4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d , < 6c9d2e87df40d606f1c85143e9acb1ecff463d5e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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