CVE-2026-43043 (GCVE-0-2026-43043)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-01 14:15
Modified
2026-05-01 14:15
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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().
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 Version: 8ff590903d5fc7f5a0a988c38267a3d08e6393a2 |
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