# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80640"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:52.650Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:52.650Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80640"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80640.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80640"
title: "cxl/fwctl: Fix __fortify_panic"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncxl/fwctl: Fix __fortify_panic\n\nFix a runtime assertion in cxlctl_get_supported_features(). Fortify\ncomplains that it is potentially overflowing the entries array per\n__counted_by_le(num_entries). Quiet the false positive by initializing\n@num_entries earlier.\n\n memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 48 byte write of buffer size 0\n WARNING: lib/string_helpers.c:1036 at __fortify_report+0x4d/0xa0, CPU#7: fwctl/1398\n RIP: 0010:__fortify_report+0x50/0xa0\n Call Trace:\n  __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf\n  cxlctl_get_supported_features.cold+0x23/0x35 [cxl_core]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b8d15e85596ad8993d42e0703a9741961a2f03eb"},{"version":"4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18c67ecc5dafe14055edcea53f36f4e31df1816b"},{"version":"4d1c09cef2c244bd19467c016a3e56ba28ecc59d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c9d2e87df40d606f1c85143e9acb1ecff463d5e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"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"}]

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