CVE-2026-43493 (GCVE-0-2026-43493)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-19 10:44 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:45
VLAI
Title
crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests MAY_BACKLOG requests can return EBUSY. Handle them by checking for that value and filtering out EINPROGRESS notifications.
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: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < ae7e95638d956d556d74b9abb9e780d3bd3dcd9e (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 1d7f07df450bac3301938fbc4251f2611be4084e (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 76641449b28979ebd6c02e9598367e119e385236 (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 9f1cbca178c03188e201ed175251372149bb25f2 (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < eb34e243df57e32f4c08fa191f3602ea19076276 (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 77d55bc8675ee851ed639dc9be77325a8024cf67 (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 46271895ddfb1ba41f89f7e0dffbe9c2bcf7380a (git)
Affected: 5a1436beec5744029f3ac90b6fe71a698dcd6155 , < 915b692e6cb723aac658c25eb82c58fd81235110 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.34
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.34 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.258 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.209 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.175 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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