CVE-2026-68435

LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup

N/A
Published: August 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC
Updated: October 30, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c91886.1
Vendor states this is fixed in 485ed44db5694d8d2e5027f63ad608e705286f30 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7a54e0cbaad4a5a09e7cc7a4f05d181048e98ca7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a94d6726ec8680a2b0c453fc782a543f68a1ea06 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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