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CVE-2026-23060

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than the minimum expected length, crypto_authenc_esn_decrypt() can advance past the end of the destination scatterlist and trigger a NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk_map_and_copy(), leading to a kernel panic (DoS). Add a minimum AAD length check to fail fast on invalid inputs.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 7

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 7

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 9