PowerPC KASAN build failure via stack doubling
Published Apr 3, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
Resource allocation flaw in affected Linux kernel versions allows attackers to cause build failures via PowerPC KASAN configurations. The thread-size macro doubles an existing 32KB stack to 64KB when KASAN is enabled, producing an out-of-range operand in arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S. The condition requires a PowerPC kernel build that already uses a 32KB stack and enables KASAN; the result is a compiler failure rather than interruption of a running kernel.
Summary
What happened
Resource allocation flaw in affected Linux kernel versions allows attackers to cause build failures via PowerPC KASAN configurations. The thread-size macro doubles an existing 32KB stack to 64KB when KASAN is enabled, producing an out-of-range operand in arch/powerpc/kernel/switch.S. The condition requires a PowerPC kernel build that already uses a 32KB stack and enables KASAN; the result is a compiler failure rather than interruption of a running kernel.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26710
- Published
- Apr 3, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-770
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 3, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=18f14afe281648e31ed35c9ad2fcb724c4838ad9 <f1acb109505d983779bbb7e20a1ee6244d2b5736
- Affected versionversion=58f396513cb1fa4ef91838c78698d458100cc27c <b29b16bd836a838b7690f80e37f8376414c74cbe
- Affected versionversion=6.1.75 <6.1.76
- Affected versionversion=6.6.14 <6.6.18
- Affected versionversion=6.7.2 <6.7.6
- Affected versionversion=9ccf64e763aca088b0d25c1274af42b1a6a45135 <f9a4c401bf4c5af3437ad221c0a5880a518068d4
- Affected versionversion=b38014874530d3776de75679315e8c1fe04aa89b <4cc31fa07445879a13750cb061bb8c2654975fcb
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