CVE-2026-99037 (GCVE-0-2026-99037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-23 12:21 – Updated: 2026-10-23 12:21
VLAI
Title
dm-crypt: reject the lmk IV mode with AEAD ciphers
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm-crypt: reject the lmk IV mode with AEAD ciphers A "capi:" table line that pairs an AEAD cipher with the lmk IV mode, for example "capi:gcm(aes)-lmk" with the integrity:28:aead option, causes an oops when it is loaded. lmk sets tfms_count to 64, but crypt_alloc_tfms_aead only allocates one transform, so crypt_setkey reads past the end of the tfms_aead array and calls crypto_aead_setkey on the values it finds there. lmk exists for compatibility with Loop-AES, which uses CBC, so refuse it with an AEAD cipher rather than allocate 64 AEAD transforms. The check cannot go in crypt_iv_lmk_ctr with the other lmk checks, because the IV constructor runs after crypt_set_key. Note that this is not a security bug because the memory corruption can only be triggered by root.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 33d2f09fcb357fd1861c4959d1d3505492bf91f8 , < 9a0dab8a9d9975dec14a118b55cae2517aea5ca9 (git)
Affected: 33d2f09fcb357fd1861c4959d1d3505492bf91f8 , < 962ce265fbf5d87afeb78cf19c12e083ab0ffeb8 (git)
Affected: 33d2f09fcb357fd1861c4959d1d3505492bf91f8 , < a1a875614dae43b43d311bb9e7a7a70eed78efe6 (git)
Affected: 33d2f09fcb357fd1861c4959d1d3505492bf91f8 , < 40ea7dfa8cd5f9aed72a55c9ca3008aee5880e6f (git)
Affected: 33d2f09fcb357fd1861c4959d1d3505492bf91f8 , < 3195e0daf590683992edb4eed32269e569e04924 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.57 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.11 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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