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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26712"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-03T14:55:14.149Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:26:49.646Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26712"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26712.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26712"
title: "powerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment\n\nIn kasan_init_region, when k_start is not page aligned, at the begin of\nfor loop, k_cur = k_start & PAGE_MASK is less than k_start, and then\n`va = block + k_cur - k_start` is less than block, the addr va is invalid,\nbecause the memory address space from va to block is not alloced by\nmemblock_alloc, which will not be reserved by memblock_reserve later, it\nwill be used by other places.\n\nAs a result, memory overwriting occurs.\n\nfor example:\nint __init __weak kasan_init_region(void *start, size_t size)\n{\n[...]\n\t/* if say block(dcd97000) k_start(feef7400) k_end(feeff3fe) */\n\tblock = memblock_alloc(k_end - k_start, PAGE_SIZE);\n\t[...]\n\tfor (k_cur = k_start & PAGE_MASK; k_cur \u003c k_end; k_cur += PAGE_SIZE) {\n\t\t/* at the begin of for loop\n\t\t * block(dcd97000) va(dcd96c00) k_cur(feef7000) k_start(feef7400)\n\t\t * va(dcd96c00) is less than block(dcd97000), va is invalid\n\t\t */\n\t\tvoid *va = block + k_cur - k_start;\n\t\t[...]\n\t}\n[...]\n}\n\nTherefore, page alignment is performed on k_start before\nmemblock_alloc() to ensure the validity of the VA address."
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