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CVE-2025-38488

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix use-after-free in crypt_message when using async crypto

The CVE-2024-50047 fix removed asynchronous crypto handling from
crypt_message(), assuming all crypto operations are synchronous.
However, when hardware crypto accelerators are used, this can cause
use-after-free crashes:

  crypt_message()
    // Allocate the creq buffer containing the req
    creq = smb2_get_aead_req(..., &req);

    // Async encryption returns -EINPROGRESS immediately
    rc = enc ? crypto_aead_encrypt(req) : crypto_aead_decrypt(req);

    // Free creq while async operation is still in progress
    kvfree_sensitive(creq, ...);

Hardware crypto modules often implement async AEAD operations for
performance. When crypto_aead_encrypt/decrypt() returns -EINPROGRESS,
the operation completes asynchronously. Without crypto_wait_req(),
the function immediately frees the request buffer, leading to crashes
when the driver later accesses the freed memory.

This results in a use-after-free condition when the hardware crypto
driver later accesses the freed request structure, leading to kernel
crashes with NULL pointer dereferences.

The issue occurs because crypto_alloc_aead() with mask=0 doesn't
guarantee synchronous operation. Even without CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC in
the mask, async implementations can be selected.

Fix by restoring the async crypto handling:
- DECLARE_CRYPTO_WAIT(wait) for completion tracking
- aead_request_set_callback() for async completion notification
- crypto_wait_req() to wait for operation completion

This ensures the request buffer isn't freed until the crypto operation
completes, whether synchronous or asynchronous, while preserving the
CVE-2024-50047 fix.

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HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 5d047b12f86cc3b9fde1171c02d9bccf4dba0632
Version 8f14a476abba13144df5434871a7225fd29af633
Status affected
Version < 6550b2bef095d0dd2d2c8390d2ea4c3837028833
Version ef51c0d544b1518b35364480317ab6d3468f205d
Status affected
Version < 9a1d3e8d40f151c2d5a5f40c410e6e433f62f438
Version bce966530fd5542bbb422cb45ecb775f7a1a6bc3
Status affected
Version < 15a0a5de49507062bc3be4014a403d8cea5533de
Version 0809fb86ad13b29e1d6d491364fc7ea4fb545995
Status affected
Version < 2a76bc2b24ed889a689fb1c9015307bf16aafb5b
Version b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a
Status affected
Version < 8ac90f6824fc44d2e55a82503ddfc95defb19ae0
Version b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a
Status affected
Version < b220bed63330c0e1733dc06ea8e75d5b9962b6b6
Version b0abcd65ec545701b8793e12bc27dc98042b151a
Status affected
Version 538c26d9bf70c90edc460d18c81008a4e555925a
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.12
Status affected
Version < 6.12
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.10.*
Version 5.10.241
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.190
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.147
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.100
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.40
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.8
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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