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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-52972

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 6/24/2026 1:17:07 PM

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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.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/265ac26d1c5e17b34d497cbda1f754a1ec8552bc
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97948906dc8e0ea84775e03e35b60a2063c70193
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c5672faf8e93e38c2deac3979cc767ca5cf918
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4fe4eb580bbc7439f649a496d4cf38415a4021c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9f68d9ed38dd6e5a6c6d75b03d25c1c133e321d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4c4a5074532eaaa14951994a3aad0d479aa7431
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8a5203596797f394ff3f9aa4005597a92249802
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