CVE-2026-43197
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated msg passed to netconsole from the console subsystem is not guaranteed to be nul-terminated. Before recent commit 7eab73b18630 ("netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure") the message would be placed in printk_shared_pbufs, a static global buffer, so KASAN had harder time catching OOB accesses. Now we see: printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594 CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9 Call Trace: kasan_report+0xe4/0x120 string+0x1f7/0x240 vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0 scnprintf+0xba/0x120 netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10 nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860 nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750 Allocated by task 1: nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450 register_console+0x26b/0xe10 init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, ffff88813b6d4c00)
How to fix
- linux linux_kernel6.18.16, 6.19.6 or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux linux_kernel | 6.6 ≤ v < 6.18.16, 6.19 ≤ v < 6.19.6, 7.0 | 6.18.16, 6.19.6 |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.141.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.143.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.145.2-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.152.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.137.1-2 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.138.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.139.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.144.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.150.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.157.1-1 | No range specified | — |
| microsoft azl3_kernel_6.6.159.1-1 | No range specified | — |
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