CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63925
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
macsec: fix replay protection at XPN lower-PN wrap
In macsec_post_decrypt(), when pn is U32_MAX, pn + 1 overflows u32 to 0
and the first branch never fires. If next_pn_halves.lower is also in the
upper half, pn_same_half(pn, lower) is true and the XPN else-if does not
fire either, leaving next_pn_halves unchanged. An attacker that captures
the legitimate frame carrying pn == 0xFFFFFFFF on an XPN association
can then replay it indefinitely, since lowest_pn never rises above
the captured pn and macsec_decrypt() reconstructs the same IV.
Extend the XPN else-if to also fire when pn + 1 wraps to 0, so receipt
of pn == U32_MAX advances next_pn_halves to (upper + 1, 0).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7 < 5.10.259)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.12)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23c0e230eab397d7f68be2538790ac41d3bb91fd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/679e13a65e68a67c8b3c0467c02ee89157ec6f0f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d00f5c7e5ff7ec4795b7f5f8ed88bd346641652 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79495a1b0944fe31ffd54b54b00211b493590d62 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d15130461df388136b62a7b0ce9f66e7e2fa9ff1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d55acbe577db892b60547b6ef1c020b359331a6d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd7306779c6ce1238f4cdc34f3c1f2246b854457 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e68842b3356471ba56c882209f324613dac47f64 Patch