CVE-2026-23060

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fee86edf5803f1d1f19e3b4f2dacac241bddfa48

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df22c9a65e9a9daa368a72fed596af9d7d5876bb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0a9609283a5c852addb513dafa655c61eebc1ef

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9532ff0d0e90ff78a214299f594ab9bac81defe4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/767e8349f7e929b7dd95c08f0b4cb353459b365e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2397e9264676be7794f8f7f1e9763d90bd3c7335

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/161bdc90fce25bd9890adc67fa1c8563a7acbf40

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-04

Updated: 2026-02-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018