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FKIE_CVE-2026-72151

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:21 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18

Severity

8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: tpm2-sessions: wait for async KPP completion in tpm_buf_append_salt tpm_buf_append_salt() in drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-sessions.c calls crypto_kpp_generate_public_key() and crypto_kpp_compute_shared_secret() without installing a completion callback, discards both return values, and immediately frees the kpp_request via kpp_request_free(). When the resolved ecdh-nist-p256 KPP backend is asynchronous (atmel-ecc, HPRE, keembay-ocs), either operation returns -EINPROGRESS and the deferred completion worker dereferences the freed request. The path fires automatically from the hwrng_fillfn kernel thread via tpm_get_random -> tpm2_get_random -> tpm2_start_auth_session -> tpm_buf_append_salt on every entropy poll, without any userland action. Install crypto_req_done as the completion callback, wrap both KPP operations in crypto_wait_req(), and propagate errors to the caller. The wait is a no-op for synchronous backends.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/111e520efbe82b324bc42b1999b723c0619eea6d
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/493333f167926c7adab8e7563e21ad71d8af84fa
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73851a7c43dfa52d2ed9415889b33daf85da0ed9
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/934d1cd40e2893bf7a041b54f6afd1c008d7a21c

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-72151 (GCVE-0-2026-72151)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:53 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:41

Title

tpm: tpm2-sessions: wait for async KPP completion in tpm_buf_append_salt

Summary

Severity

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/111e520efbe82b324…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/934d1cd40e2893bf7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/493333f167926c7ad…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73851a7c43dfa52d2…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 1085b8276bb4239daa7008f0dcd5c973e4bd690f , < 111e520efbe82b324bc42b1999b723c0619eea6d (git) Affected: 1085b8276bb4239daa7008f0dcd5c973e4bd690f , < 934d1cd40e2893bf7a041b54f6afd1c008d7a21c (git) Affected: 1085b8276bb4239daa7008f0dcd5c973e4bd690f , < 493333f167926c7adab8e7563e21ad71d8af84fa (git) Affected: 1085b8276bb4239daa7008f0dcd5c973e4bd690f , < 73851a7c43dfa52d2ed9415889b33daf85da0ed9 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.10 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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