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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97906"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:31.640Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:32.335Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97906"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97906.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97906"
title: "bootconfig: Fix integer overflow in initrd size check"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbootconfig: Fix integer overflow in initrd size check\n\nSashiko reported that in get_boot_config_from_initrd(), a crafted initrd\nwith a huge bootconfig size (such as 0xFFFFFFFF) can cause the pointer\narithmetic:\n\n    data = ((void *)hdr) - size;\n\nto wrap around on 32-bit systems (or when pointer subtraction overflows).\nBecause data wraps around, the subsequent bounds check:\n\n    if ((unsigned long)data \u003c initrd_start)\n\nevaluates to false, bypassing the check. The kernel then calls\nxbc_calc_checksum(data, size), which attempts to read 4GB of memory,\nhitting unmapped pages and triggering a fatal kernel page fault during\nearly boot. Furthermore, on 64-bit systems with an initrd \u003e 4.29 GB, an\nunbounded 32-bit size can similarly bypass the initrd_start check.\n\nFix this by:\n1. Ensuring the initrd is at least large enough to contain the bootconfig\n   footer and verifying hdr is within the initrd bounds.\n2. Checking that size does not exceed XBC_DATA_MAX and does not exceed\n   the available space between initrd_start and hdr before performing\n   pointer subtraction."
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