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Tracker / CVE-2026-23060

CVE-2026-23060

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.3 → 5.10.249
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.199
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.162
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.8
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.122
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.68

Analysis

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