Bug 2482000 (CVE-2026-46033) - CVE-2026-46033 kernel: crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation
Summary: CVE-2026-46033 kernel: crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-46033
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-27 20:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:06:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: authencesn - reject short ahash digests during instance creation

authencesn requires either a zero authsize or an authsize of at least
4 bytes because the ESN encrypt/decrypt paths always move 4 bytes of
high-order sequence number data at the end of the authenticated data.

While crypto_authenc_esn_setauthsize() already rejects explicit
non-zero authsizes in the range 1..3, crypto_authenc_esn_create()
still copied auth->digestsize into inst->alg.maxauthsize without
validating it.  The AEAD core then initialized the tfm's default
authsize from that value.

As a result, selecting an ahash with digest size 1..3, such as
cbcmac(cipher_null), exposed authencesn instances whose default
authsize was invalid even though setauthsize() would have rejected the
same value.  AF_ALG could then trigger the ESN tail handling with a
too-short tag and hit an out-of-bounds access.

Reject authencesn instances whose ahash digest size is in the invalid
non-zero range 1..3 so that no tfm can inherit an unsupported default
authsize.


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