CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68435

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel for LoongArch, there is a bug in the kexec command line lookup. In the kexec_load(2) path, a user-space pointer is cast to a kernel pointer and used in strncmp(), causing an incorrect memory reference. The fix copies the segment prefix to a stack buffer using copy_from_user() before comparing.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may lead to incorrect memory reads in kernel context, potentially causing system crashes or security breaches during kexec operations.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing the fix for this vulnerability. If possible, restrict access to kexec operations for unprivileged users.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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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