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  - crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc Several crypto user API contexts and     requests allocated with sock_kmalloc() were left uninitialized, relying on callers to set fields     explicitly. This resulted in the use of uninitialized data in certain error paths or when new fields are     added in the future. The ACVP patches also contain two user-space interface files: algif_kpp.c and     algif_akcipher.c. These too rely on proper initialization of their context structures. A particular issue     has been observed with the newly added 'inflight' variable introduced in af_alg_ctx by commit:
    67b164a871af (crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests) Because the context is not     memset to zero after allocation, the inflight variable has contained garbage values. As a result,     af_alg_alloc_areq() has incorrectly returned -EBUSY randomly when the garbage value was interpreted as     true: https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/master/crypto/af_alg.c#L1209 The check directly tests     ctx->inflight without explicitly comparing against true/false. Since inflight is only ever set to true or     false later, an uninitialized value has triggered -EBUSY failures. Zero-initializing memory allocated with     sock_kmalloc() ensures inflight and other fields start in a known state, removing random issues caused by     uninitialized data. (CVE-2025-71113)

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Version 1.8 Feb 12, 2026, 7:05 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 2.1. "CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602120705
Version 1.6 Feb 10, 2026, 11:15 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602101115
Version 1.5 Feb 7, 2026, 9:06 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602070906
Version 1.4 Feb 4, 2026, 6:31 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602040631
Version 1.3 Feb 3, 2026, 10:27 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202602032227
Version 1.2 Jan 16, 2026, 10:12 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 3.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2025-71113, severity decreased from "Medium" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601162212
Version 1.1 Jan 15, 2026, 2:04 PM New Plugin Feed: 202601151404