7.1

CVE-2026-46033

crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation

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

crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation

authencesn requires either a zero authsize or an authsize of at least
4 bytes because the ESN encrypt/decrypt paths always move 4 bytes of
high-order sequence number data at the end of the authenticated data.

While crypto_authenc_esn_setauthsize() already rejects explicit
non-zero authsizes in the range 1..3, crypto_authenc_esn_create()
still copied auth->digestsize into inst->alg.maxauthsize without
validating it.  The AEAD core then initialized the tfm's default
authsize from that value.

As a result, selecting an ahash with digest size 1..3, such as
cbcmac(cipher_null), exposed authencesn instances whose default
authsize was invalid even though setauthsize() would have rejected the
same value.  AF_ALG could then trigger the ESN tail handling with a
too-short tag and hit an out-of-bounds access.

Reject authencesn instances whose ahash digest size is in the invalid
non-zero range 1..3 so that no tfm can inherit an unsupported default
authsize.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.11 < 5.10.258
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.209
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.175
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.140
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.86
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.27
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version7.1 Updaterc1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.13% 0.029
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c 7 1 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

The product receives input that is expected to specify a quantity (such as size or length), but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the quantity has the required properties.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69933e97efea238ebbfcf70c2b1be1cd03f13e3
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67f1f0933cc3d78dde222842bcad2778ec7a0b88
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b42821c15445f93daea3e76ada682b2b7181c476
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aff81e8217e9de2929084b03b3c7f81988c112b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db6ef9847717329f12c5ea8aba7e9f588a980c0
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f31cd1e64a079c845bca31d2da7b3c90a311726
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77f59fb2d3aa33e90ec6cbbf45dcfb20ab82b1a9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4c6a6d08e70bb1083c7c405fc7faacbf19aebc0
Patch
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46033
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482000
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-46033.json