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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-07-30T09:28:09.393Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-12T00:07:23.359Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-17T05:05:31.962Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nLoongArch: Fix address space mismatch in kexec command line lookup\n\nWhen searching the loaded segments for the \"kexec\" command line marker,\nthe kexec_load(2) path (file_mode == 0) passes the user-space segment\nbuffer straight to strncmp() through a bogus (char __user *) cast. This\ndereferences a user pointer in kernel context, which is wrong and is\nflagged by sparse:\n\n  arch/loongarch/kernel/machine_kexec.c:84:51: sparse: incorrect type in\n  argument 2 (different address spaces) @@ expected char const * @@ got\n  char [noderef] __user *\n\nHere copy the marker-sized prefix of each segment into a small on-stack\nbuffer with copy_from_user() before comparing, and skip segments that\nfault. The subsequent copy_from_user() that stages the full command line\ninto the safe area is left unchanged."
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