Tracker / CVE-2026-43043
CVE-2026-43043
Medium 5.5
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().
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.38 → 5.10.253 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.168 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.22 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.12 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.134 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.81 |
Analysis
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