CVE-2024-26988

high
Published 2024-11-12 · Modified 2026-05-12
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
7.8

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*()")

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-26988

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26988.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/936a02b5a9630c5beb0353c3085cc49d86c57034

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/936a02b5a9630c5beb0353c3085cc49d86c57034

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cf85ae4f2dd5fa3e43021782aa72c4c85558e8

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cf85ae4f2dd5fa3e43021782aa72c4c85558e8

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c2f4d426a5358fced5d5990744d46f10a4ccea

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76c2f4d426a5358fced5d5990744d46f10a4ccea

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46dad3c1e57897ab9228332f03e1c14798d2d3b9

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46dad3c1e57897ab9228332f03e1c14798d2d3b9

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ef607ea103616aec0289f1b65d103d499fa903a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ef607ea103616aec0289f1b65d103d499fa903a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc727a4e05400205358a22c3d01ccad2c8e1fe4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc727a4e05400205358a22c3d01ccad2c8e1fe4

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.90-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.216-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.8.9-1
debian debiansidfixed6.8.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.8.9-1
debian debian10.0affected
linux linux-kernelaffected5.10.216
linux linux-kernel6.9affected
fedora fedora38affected
fedora fedora39affected
fedora fedora40affected

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.