CVE-2026-52972
crypto: af_alg - Cap AEAD AD length to 0x80000000
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
24 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52972https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2492364https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bchttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c06479d7059888adf2f22bc1ebcf053bf691a2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-52972.json