s390/checksum: Fix csum_partial() without vector facility (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-68385
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/checksum: Fix csum_partial() without vector facility Currently csum_partial() calls csum_copy() with copy=false and dst=NULL. On machines without the vector facility, csum_copy() falls back to cksm(dst, ...), causing the checksum to be calculated from address zero instead of the source buffer. The VX implementation already checksums data loaded from src. Make the fallback do the same by passing src to cksm().

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected dcd3e1de9d17dc43dfed87a9fc814b9dec508043 < 5fc0a2a6eeb99cac991242bb48796c7749ce3261 ; affected dcd3e1de9d17dc43dfed87a9fc814b9dec508043 < 1d9a2f01b3c4e5c88e06b2db4b5460c2ec884722 ; affected dcd3e1de9d17dc43dfed87a9fc814b9dec508043 < 898bb2814f38399108bdd2113f38d97383a7036a ; affected dcd3e1de9d17dc43dfed87a9fc814b9dec508043 < 4bb06b60d982355e22647b3d12d6619419f8c1fa
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.9 ; unaffected 0 < 6.9 ; unaffected 6.12.101 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.42 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.6 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD