CVE-2025-71231 (GCVE-0-2025-71231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 14:53 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:56
VLAI
Title
crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode The local variable 'i' is initialized with -EINVAL, but the for loop immediately overwrites it and -EINVAL is never returned. If no empty compression mode can be found, the function would return the out-of-bounds index IAA_COMP_MODES_MAX, which would cause an invalid array access in add_iaa_compression_mode(). Fix both issues by returning either a valid index or -EINVAL.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 , < c77b33b58512708bd5603f48465f018c8b748847 (git)
Affected: b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 , < d75207465eed20bc9b0daa4a0927de9568996067 (git)
Affected: b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 , < de16f5bca05cace238d237791ed1b6e9d22dab60 (git)
Affected: b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 , < 48329301969f6d21b2ef35f678e40f72b59eac94 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.72 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.11 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.1 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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