CVE-2026-23060

high

Published 2026-05-19 · Modified 2026-05-26

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.162-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.249-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.18.8-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.18.8-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.12.69-1`
almalinux	9	fixed	`kernel-doc-5.14.0-687.5.3.el9_8.noarch.rpm`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.