{"id":"CVE-2024-26988","summary":"init/main.c: Fix potential static_command_line memory overflow","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ninit/main.c: Fix potential static_command_line memory overflow\n\nWe allocate memory of size 'xlen + strlen(boot_command_line) + 1' for\nstatic_command_line, but the strings copied into static_command_line are\nextra_command_line and command_line, rather than extra_command_line and\nboot_command_line.\n\nWhen strlen(command_line) \u003e strlen(boot_command_line), static_command_line\nwill overflow.\n\nThis patch just recovers strlen(command_line) which was miss-consolidated\nwith strlen(boot_command_line) in the commit f5c7310ac73e (\"init/main: add\nchecks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()\")","modified":"2026-04-16T04:38:48.423648948Z","published":"2024-05-01T05:27:39.190Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2135-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2203-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/26xxx/CVE-2024-26988.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc727a4e05400205358a22c3d01ccad2c8e1fe4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ef607ea103616aec0289f1b65d103d499fa903a"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46dad3c1e57897ab9228332f03e1c14798d2d3b9"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c2f4d426a5358fced5d5990744d46f10a4ccea"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cf85ae4f2dd5fa3e43021782aa72c4c85558e8"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/936a02b5a9630c5beb0353c3085cc49d86c57034"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4EZ6PJW7VOZ224TD7N4JZNU6KV32ZJ53/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAMSOZXJEPUOXW33WZYWCVAY7Z5S7OOY/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GCBZZEC7L7KTWWAS2NLJK6SO3IZIL4WW/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/26xxx/CVE-2024-26988.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26988"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"f5c7310ac73ea270e3a1acdb73d1b4817f11fd67"},{"fixed":"2ef607ea103616aec0289f1b65d103d499fa903a"},{"fixed":"0dc727a4e05400205358a22c3d01ccad2c8e1fe4"},{"fixed":"76c2f4d426a5358fced5d5990744d46f10a4ccea"},{"fixed":"81cf85ae4f2dd5fa3e43021782aa72c4c85558e8"},{"fixed":"936a02b5a9630c5beb0353c3085cc49d86c57034"},{"fixed":"46dad3c1e57897ab9228332f03e1c14798d2d3b9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-26988.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}