CVE-2026-31533 (GCVE-0-2026-31533)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-23 15:11 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:05
VLAI
Title
net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption The -EBUSY handling in tls_do_encryption(), introduced by commit 859054147318 ("net: tls: handle backlogging of crypto requests"), has a use-after-free due to double cleanup of encrypt_pending and the scatterlist entry. When crypto_aead_encrypt() returns -EBUSY, the request is enqueued to the cryptd backlog and the async callback tls_encrypt_done() will be invoked upon completion. That callback unconditionally restores the scatterlist entry (sge->offset, sge->length) and decrements ctx->encrypt_pending. However, if tls_encrypt_async_wait() returns an error, the synchronous error path in tls_do_encryption() performs the same cleanup again, double-decrementing encrypt_pending and double-restoring the scatterlist. The double-decrement corrupts the encrypt_pending sentinel (initialized to 1), making tls_encrypt_async_wait() permanently skip the wait for pending async callbacks. A subsequent sendmsg can then free the tls_rec via bpf_exec_tx_verdict() while a cryptd callback is still pending, resulting in a use-after-free when the callback fires on the freed record. Fix this by skipping the synchronous cleanup when the -EBUSY async wait returns an error, since the callback has already handled encrypt_pending and sge restoration.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 3ade391adc584f17b5570fd205de3ad029090368 , < 414fc5e5a5aff776c150f1b86770e0a25a35df3a (git)
Affected: cd1bbca03f3c1d845ce274c0d0a66de8e5929f72 , < 02f3ecadb23558bbe068e6504118f1b712d4ece0 (git)
Affected: 13eca403876bbea3716e82cdfe6f1e6febb38754 , < 0e43e0a3c94044acc74b8e0927c27972eb5a59e8 (git)
Affected: 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3 , < aa9facde6c5005205874c37db3fd25799d741baf (git)
Affected: 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3 , < 5d70eb25b41e9b010828cd12818b06a0c3b04412 (git)
Affected: 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3 , < 2694d408b0e595024e0fc1d64ff9db0358580f74 (git)
Affected: 8590541473188741055d27b955db0777569438e3 , < a9b8b18364fffce4c451e6f6fd218fa4ab646705 (git)
Affected: ab6397f072e5097f267abf5cb08a8004e6b17694 (git)
Affected: 5.15.160 , < 5.15.203 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.84 , < 6.1.169 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.18 , < 6.6.135 (semver)
Affected: 6.7.6 , < 6.8 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.169 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.135 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.82 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.23 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.13 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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