Bug 2528677 (CVE-2026-80836) - CVE-2026-80836 kernel: crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length
Summary: CVE-2026-80836 kernel: crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80836
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-04 16:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-25 22:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-04 16:23:48 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: virtio - bound the akcipher result length

virtio_crypto_dataq_akcipher_callback() sets the result length from the
device-reported response length without bounding it to the destination
buffer, which was allocated for the original request length.
sg_copy_from_buffer() then reads that many bytes from the destination
buffer; a backend reporting a larger length over-reads adjacent kernel
heap into the caller's scatterlist (an out-of-bounds read).

Clamp the reported length to the originally requested destination length.
A conforming device reports no more than that, so valid results are
unaffected.


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