CVE-2025-39789 (GCVE-0-2025-39789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-11 16:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:36
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Title
crypto: x86/aegis - Add missing error checks
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: x86/aegis - Add missing error checks The skcipher_walk functions can allocate memory and can fail, so checking for errors is necessary.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1d373d4e8e15b358f08de52956b32e0e38a11f84 , < 475104178f4d30e749ee4f5473c87f692b93bebb (git)
Affected: 1d373d4e8e15b358f08de52956b32e0e38a11f84 , < 3d9eb180fbe8828cce43bce4c370124685b205c3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.4 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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