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.
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Configurations
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History
30 Jun 2026, 03:20
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| CWE | CWE-1284 |
16 Jun 2026, 17:00
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| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f31cd1e64a079c845bca31d2da7b3c90a311726 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db6ef9847717329f12c5ea8aba7e9f588a980c0 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67f1f0933cc3d78dde222842bcad2778ec7a0b88 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77f59fb2d3aa33e90ec6cbbf45dcfb20ab82b1a9 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aff81e8217e9de2929084b03b3c7f81988c112b - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b42821c15445f93daea3e76ada682b2b7181c476 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69933e97efea238ebbfcf70c2b1be1cd03f13e3 - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4c6a6d08e70bb1083c7c405fc7faacbf19aebc0 - Patch | |
| First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
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| CWE | CWE-125 | |
| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.1 |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
01 Jun 2026, 17:17
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27 May 2026, 14:17
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Information
Published : 2026-05-27 14:17
Updated : 2026-07-15 02:22
NVD link : CVE-2026-46033
Mitre link : CVE-2026-46033
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-46033
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
