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GHSA-34WC-9M9J-23PC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-04 18:30 – Updated: 2026-02-06 18:30

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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.

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  "modified": "2026-02-06T18:30:30Z",
  "published": "2026-02-04T18:30:43Z",
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CVE-2026-23060 (GCVE-0-2026-23060)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:07 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:37

Title

crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec

Summary

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df22c9a65e9a9daa3…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fee86edf5803f1d1f…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/767e8349f7e929b7d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0a9609283a5c852a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/161bdc90fce25bd98…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9532ff0d0e90ff78a…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2397e9264676be779…

Impacted products

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Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < df22c9a65e9a9daa368a72fed596af9d7d5876bb (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < fee86edf5803f1d1f19e3b4f2dacac241bddfa48 (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 767e8349f7e929b7dd95c08f0b4cb353459b365e (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < b0a9609283a5c852addb513dafa655c61eebc1ef (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 161bdc90fce25bd9890adc67fa1c8563a7acbf40 (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 9532ff0d0e90ff78a214299f594ab9bac81defe4 (git)
Affected: 104880a6b470958ddc30e139c41aa4f6ed3a5234 , < 2397e9264676be7794f8f7f1e9763d90bd3c7335 (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.249 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.199 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.162 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.68 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.8 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-23060 (GCVE-0-2026-23060)

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