CVE-2026-72013 (GCVE-0-2026-72013)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:06
VLAI
Title
riscv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in machine_kexec_prepare()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in machine_kexec_prepare() A NULL pointer dereference issue is noticed in riscv's machine_kexec_prepare(), where image->segment[i].buf might be NULL and copied unchecked. The NULL buf comes from ima_add_kexec_buffer(), where kbuf is added by kexec_add_buffer(), but kbuf.buffer is NULL, then it is copied without a check in machine_kexec_prepare(): kexec_file_load -> kimage_file_alloc_init() -> kimage_file_prepare_segments() -> ima_add_kexec_buffer() -> kexec_add_buffer() -> machine_kexec_prepare() -> memcpy() Address this by adding a check before the data copy attempt.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 4211742f0f9e083188f4f0ada00d6eeeef31b7c7 , < 606cc45e871e34b80a2f63874f069387a5b44176 (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < c462e15497dc40abe369b3be7a2c91ac5d1be6f9 (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < b5f92cc4e24a298bf390b0b189a4b888c0900161 (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < 6ad6954492697681ebcfc1beb0eb384406cd4b65 (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < eadd0c2c76aee6a738f17f251434c77db3c606c8 (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < d5b2752a17efc165793ae38f2c24b5ed9c04ffde (git)
Affected: b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032 , < 81bbcff0c053c4f5c711c31a9b72fc492bd96c3f (git)
Affected: 3ca8a07f141fd8eec347a82bdfa4b94164f2bb97 (git)
Affected: 3ba83e46b591381e718007f55c9f831fd0cd7ee8 (git)
Affected: 5.15.47 , < 5.15.212 (semver)
Affected: 5.17.15 , < 5.18 (semver)
Affected: 5.18.4 , < 5.19 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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