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FKIE_CVE-2022-49260

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-02-26 07:01 - Updated: 2026-08-04 10:17

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: hisilicon/sec - fix the aead software fallback for engine Due to the subreq pointer misuse the private context memory. The aead soft crypto occasionally casues the OS panic as setting the 64K page. Here is fix it.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a2a464f863187f97e96ebc6384c052cafd4a54c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40dba7c26e897c637e91312b35f664f1d4d0073c	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c1149e2abe0b7489300736b8277b45b113de67f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7b10f3cac7810ddcfd976304fd125aca33d144	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2022-49260 (GCVE-0-2022-49260)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:54

Title

crypto: hisilicon/sec - fix the aead software fallback for engine

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40dba7c26e897c637…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef7b10f3cac7810dd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c1149e2abe0b7489…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a2a464f863187f97…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6c46a3297beae4ae2d22b26da5e091f058381c7c , < 40dba7c26e897c637e91312b35f664f1d4d0073c (git) Affected: 6c46a3297beae4ae2d22b26da5e091f058381c7c , < ef7b10f3cac7810ddcfd976304fd125aca33d144 (git) Affected: 6c46a3297beae4ae2d22b26da5e091f058381c7c , < 5c1149e2abe0b7489300736b8277b45b113de67f (git) Affected: 6c46a3297beae4ae2d22b26da5e091f058381c7c , < 0a2a464f863187f97e96ebc6384c052cafd4a54c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2022-49260 (GCVE-0-2022-49260)

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