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Medium 5.5Published Jun 24, 2026
CVE-2026-52972In 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 th…
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-190
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel | from 4.1 before 5.10.258; from 5.11 before 5.15.209; from 5.16 before 6.1.175; from 6.2 before 6.6.141; from 6.7 before 6.12.91; from 6.13 before 6.18.33; from 6.19 before 7.0.10; from 7.1 before 7.2 | NVD |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b3a57d218618cb1cc78ddc9ba02c07de84b46f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bcpatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021cpatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321dpatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52972third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492364issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-52972.jsonthird-party-advisory
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