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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72013" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:41.982Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:06:35.378Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-72013" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72013.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72013" title: "riscv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in machine_kexec_prepare()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in machine_kexec_prepare()\n\nA NULL pointer dereference issue is noticed in riscv's\nmachine_kexec_prepare(), where image-\u003esegment[i].buf might be NULL and\ncopied unchecked.\n\nThe NULL buf comes from ima_add_kexec_buffer(), where kbuf is added by\nkexec_add_buffer(), but kbuf.buffer is NULL, then it is copied without\na check in machine_kexec_prepare():\n\n kexec_file_load\n -\u003e kimage_file_alloc_init()\n -\u003e kimage_file_prepare_segments()\n -\u003e ima_add_kexec_buffer()\n -\u003e kexec_add_buffer()\n -\u003e machine_kexec_prepare()\n -\u003e memcpy()\n\nAddress this by adding a check before the data copy attempt." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4211742f0f9e083188f4f0ada00d6eeeef31b7c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"606cc45e871e34b80a2f63874f069387a5b44176"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c462e15497dc40abe369b3be7a2c91ac5d1be6f9"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5f92cc4e24a298bf390b0b189a4b888c0900161"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ad6954492697681ebcfc1beb0eb384406cd4b65"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eadd0c2c76aee6a738f17f251434c77db3c606c8"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5b2752a17efc165793ae38f2c24b5ed9c04ffde"},{"version":"b7fb4d78a6ade6026d9e5cf438c2a46ab962e032","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81bbcff0c053c4f5c711c31a9b72fc492bd96c3f"},{"version":"3ca8a07f141fd8eec347a82bdfa4b94164f2bb97","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3ba83e46b591381e718007f55c9f831fd0cd7ee8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.47","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.212"},{"version":"5.17.15","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"5.18.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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