5.5

CVE-2026-43043

crypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk

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

crypto: af-alg - fix NULL pointer dereference in scatterwalk

The AF_ALG interface fails to unmark the end of a Scatter/Gather List (SGL)
when chaining a new af_alg_tsgl structure. If a sendmsg() fills an SGL
exactly to MAX_SGL_ENTS, the last entry is marked as the end. A subsequent
sendmsg() allocates a new SGL and chains it, but fails to clear the end
marker on the previous SGL's last data entry.

This causes the crypto scatterwalk to hit a premature end, returning NULL
on sg_next() and leading to a kernel panic during dereference.

Fix this by explicitly unmarking the end of the previous SGL when
performing sg_chain() in af_alg_alloc_tsgl().
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 2.6.38 < 5.10.253
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.203
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.168
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.134
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.81
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.22
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.12
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version7.0 Updaterc5
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.023
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.