CVE-2026-68435

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.

CVSS

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References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485ed44db5694d8d2e5027f63ad608e705286f30
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a54e0cbaad4a5a09e7cc7a4f05d181048e98ca7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a94d6726ec8680a2b0c453fc782a543f68a1ea06

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Information

Published : 2026-08-12 00:17

Updated : 2026-08-17 06:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-68435

Mitre link : CVE-2026-68435

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-68435

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CWE

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