CVE-2026-23060 (GCVE-0-2026-23060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:07 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:37
VLAI?
Title
crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec
authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than
the minimum expected length, crypto_authenc_esn_decrypt() can advance past
the end of the destination scatterlist and trigger a NULL pointer dereference
in scatterwalk_map_and_copy(), leading to a kernel panic (DoS).
Add a minimum AAD length check to fail fast on invalid inputs.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < df22c9a65e9a9daa368a72fed596af9d7d5876bb
(git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < fee86edf5803f1d1f19e3b4f2dacac241bddfa48 (git) Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 767e8349f7e929b7dd95c08f0b4cb353459b365e (git) Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < b0a9609283a5c852addb513dafa655c61eebc1ef (git) Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 161bdc90fce25bd9890adc67fa1c8563a7acbf40 (git) Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 9532ff0d0e90ff78a214299f594ab9bac81defe4 (git) Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 2397e9264676be7794f8f7f1e9763d90bd3c7335 (git) |
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