CVE-2025-40019 (GCVE-0-2025-40019)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-24 11:44 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:40
VLAI
Title
crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption Move the ssize check to the start in essiv_aead_crypt so that it's also checked for decryption and in-place encryption.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < 29294dd6f1e7acf527255fb136ffde6602c3a129 (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < 71f03f8f72d9c70ffba76980e78b38c180e61589 (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < df58651968f82344a0ed2afdafd20ecfc55ff548 (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < 248ff2797ff52a8cbf86507f9583437443bf7685 (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < f37e7860dc5e94c70b4a3e38a5809181310ea9ac (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < dc4c854a5e7453c465fa73b153eba4ef2a240abe (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < da7afb01ba05577ba3629f7f4824205550644986 (git)
Affected: be1eb7f78aa8fbe34779c56c266ccd0364604e71 , < 6bb73db6948c2de23e407fe1b7ef94bf02b7529f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.301 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.195 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.157 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.113 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.54 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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