Bug 2406200 (CVE-2025-40022) - CVE-2025-40022 kernel: crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx
Summary: CVE-2025-40022 kernel: crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_al...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40022
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-24 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 13:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-24 13:01:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: af_alg - Fix incorrect boolean values in af_alg_ctx

Commit 1b34cbbf4f01 ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in
af_alg_sendmsg") changed some fields from bool to 1-bit bitfields of
type u32.

However, some assignments to these fields, specifically 'more' and
'merge', assign values greater than 1.  These relied on C's implicit
conversion to bool, such that zero becomes false and nonzero becomes
true.

With a 1-bit bitfields of type u32 instead, mod 2 of the value is taken
instead, resulting in 0 being assigned in some cases when 1 was intended.

Fix this by restoring the bool type.


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