lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43492
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() Yiming reports an integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() when subtracting "lzeros" from the unsigned "nbytes". For this to happen, the scatterlist "sgl" needs to occupy more bytes than the "nbytes" parameter and the first "nbytes + 1" bytes of the scatterlist must be zero. Under these conditions, the while loop iterating over the scatterlist will count more zeroes than "nbytes", subtract the number of zeroes from "nbytes" and cause the underflow. When commit 2d4d1eea540b ("lib/mpi: Add mpi sgl helpers") originally introduced the bug, it couldn't be triggered because all callers of mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() passed a scatterlist whose length was equal to "nbytes". However since commit 63ba4d67594a ("KEYS: asymmetric: Use new crypto interface without scatterlists"), the underflow can now actually be triggered. When invoking a KEYCTL_PKEY_ENCRYPT system call with a larger "out_len" than "in_len" and filling the "in" buffer with zeroes, crypto_akcipher_sync_prep() will create an all-zero scatterlist used for both the "src" and "dst" member of struct akcipher_request and thereby fulfil the conditions to trigger the bug: sys_keyctl() keyctl_pkey_e_d_s() asymmetric_key_eds_op() software_key_eds_op() crypto_akcipher_sync_encrypt() crypto_akcipher_sync_prep() crypto_akcipher_encrypt() rsa_enc() mpi_read_raw_from_sgl() To the user this will be visible as a DoS as the kernel spins forever, causing soft lockup splats as a side effect. Fix it.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < a1793a48881ec8d26e9c79b0ee65753f1c6846a4 ; affected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < 1abd50fc3cfa16fc2074a3c8c2729c50fd9d7043 ; affected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < 6d63615c796c085b4984e3031b9fa77fffb47360 ; affected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < 2aa77a18dc7f2670497fe3ee5acbeda0b57659e5 ; affected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < 26d3a97ad46c7a9226ec04d4bf35bd4998a97d16 ; affected 2d4d1eea540b27c72488fd1914674c42473d53df < 8637dfb4c1d8a7026ef681f2477c6de8b71c4003
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.4 ; unaffected 0 < 4.4 ; unaffected 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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