CVE-2026-52972

medium

Description

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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https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-52972.json

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492364

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52972

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-24

Updated: 2026-07-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H