CVE-2026-52972 (GCVE-0-2026-52972)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-24 16:28
Modified
2026-08-17 04:50
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000 In order to prevent arithmetic overflows when checking the TX buffer size, cap the associated data length to 0x80000000.
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Linux Linux Version: 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef
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