CVE-2024-26994: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: speakup: Avoid crash on very long word In case a console is set up really large and contains a really long word (> 256 characters), we have to stop before the length of the word buffer.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 38 only; version 39 only; version 40 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.37, before 4.19.313 (fixed in 4.19.313); from 4.20, before 5.4.275 (fixed in 5.4.275); from 5.5, before 5.10.216 (fixed in 5.10.216); from 5.11, before 5.15.157 (fixed in 5.15.157); from 5.16, before 6.1.88 (fixed in 6.1.88); from 6.2, before 6.6.29 (fixed in 6.6.29); …

Published 2024-05-01. Last modified 2026-08-04.