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GHSA-9QR8-JP95-W4M5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-24 18:32 – Updated: 2026-06-30 03:37

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000

In order to prevent arithmetic overflows when checking the TX buffer size, cap the associated data length to 0x80000000.

Severity

7.0 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-52972 (GCVE-0-2026-52972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:28 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:09

Title

crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000 In order to prevent arithmetic overflows when checking the TX buffer size, cap the associated data length to 0x80000000.

Severity

7 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

Linux

References

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa1…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c06479d7059888a…
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52972	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492364	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/v…	x_sadp-csaf-vex

Impacted products

7 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802 (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321d (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021c (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431 (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < 265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bc (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918 (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < 97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193 (git) Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.1 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.258 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.141 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.91 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.33 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.10 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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