PT-2026-51866 · Linux · Linux

Published 2026-06-24 · Updated 2026-06-24 · CVE-2026-52972

Mitre

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.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-52972

Affected Products

Linux

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52972 · Security Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021c · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321d · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bc · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193 · Note