CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-52972
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-25
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.1 < 5.10.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.91)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 7.1 < 7.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b3a57d218618cb1cc78ddc9ba02c07de84b46f4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802 Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52972 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492364 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-52972.json Third Party Advisory