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CVE-2026-45988 (GCVE-0-2026-45988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:55 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:29
VLAI
Title
rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets If a RESPONSE packet gets a temporary failure during processing, it may end up in a partially decrypted state - and then get requeued for a retry. Fix this by just discarding the packet; we will send another CHALLENGE packet and thereby elicit a further response. Similarly, discard an incoming CHALLENGE packet if we get an error whilst generating a RESPONSE; the server will send another CHALLENGE.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea , < d61482be4aae1835b78875761206241835a7510e (git)
Affected: 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea , < 7b89868305052b94a91b708c462bc2281fa42a4a (git)
Affected: 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea , < 76cb9a2d252274adfae6e293a292434631a7d472 (git)
Affected: 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea , < f55b383070170e988e4dec28be2af1714d258521 (git)
Affected: 17926a79320afa9b95df6b977b40cca6d8713cea , < 0422e7a4883f25101903f3e8105c0808aa5f4ce9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.22
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.22 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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