CVE-2026-68435
LoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup
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 products and versions
2| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
LinuxBrowse Linux / LinuxDefault status: unaffected, affected | CVE List | 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 to < a94d6726ec8680a2b0c453fc782a543f68a1ea06 | affected |
| 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 to < 7a54e0cbaad4a5a09e7cc7a4f05d181048e98ca7 | affected | ||
| 4a03b2ac06a5bcae29371866d9d11f5bfd4c9188 to < 485ed44db5694d8d2e5027f63ad608e705286f30 | affected | ||
| 6.1 | affected | ||
| Before 6.1 | unaffected | ||
| 6.18.42 to ≤ 6.18.* | unaffected | ||
| 7.1.6 to ≤ 7.1.* | unaffected | ||
| 7.2-rc5 to ≤ * | unaffected | ||
KernelBrowse Linux / Kernel | OSV | 6.1.0 to < 6.18.42 · Fixed in 6.18.42 | affected |
| 6.19.0 to < 7.1.6 · Fixed in 7.1.6 | affected |