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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 16:28 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:50
VLAI
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
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
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 , < 0b3a57d218618cb1cc78ddc9ba02c07de84b46f4 (git)
Affected: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef , < e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2 (git)
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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: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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