CVE-2024-26988

init/main.c: Fix potential static_command_line memory overflow

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

init/main.c: Fix potential static_command_line memory overflow

We allocate memory of size 'xlen + strlen(boot_command_line) + 1' for static_command_line, but the strings copied into static_command_line are extra_command_line and command_line, rather than extra_command_line and boot_command_line.

When strlen(command_line) > strlen(boot_command_line), static_command_line will overflow.

This patch just recovers strlen(command_line) which was miss-consolidated with strlen(boot_command_line) in the commit f5c7310ac73e ("init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()")

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 2ef607ea103616aec0289f1b65d103d499fa903aAffected
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 0dc727a4e05400205358a22c3d01ccad2c8e1fe4Affected
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 76c2f4d426a5358fced5d5990744d46f10a4cceaAffected
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 81cf85ae4f2dd5fa3e43021782aa72c4c85558e8Affected
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 936a02b5a9630c5beb0353c3085cc49d86c57034Affected
  • f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67 to before 46dad3c1e57897ab9228332f03e1c14798d2d3b9Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.1Affected
  • before 5.1Not affected
  • 5.10.216 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.157 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.88 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.29 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.8.8 through 6.8.*Not affected
  • 6.9 and laterNot affected

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