Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2026-52972

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.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 400c40cf78da00c16e561a3a253ca272455c42ef, 4.1, 0

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