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CVE-2024-26988

7.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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*()")

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 12

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.8 · linux, debian, fedoraprojectNVD modified 2026-10-15 01:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 9

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 18